11.   Already, the parties are starting to lay blame.

12.   But he declined to lay blame for the impasse.

13.   But he refused to lay any blame on Weld, a popular figure in the GOP.

14.   But Gonzalez was hesitant to lay the blame at the feet of the narcotraffickers so quickly.

15.   But rather than faulting the book, I lay the blame for the complexity on the tax code itself.

16.   Certainly not the Jews who still lay great blame for the Holocaust at the indifferent feet of Pope Pius XII.

17.   Clinton and his Cabinet officers are bandying about a remarkable statistic intended to lay the blame for the current problems squarely on the last two Republican administrations.

18.   Commission Republicans Tuesday sought to lay blame for the deadlock on Clinton, whose four appointees voted against the plan.

19.   Each side was gearing up to lay the blame for a failed summit squarely on the purported bad faith of the other party.

20.   Foreign analysts in Kazakhstan agree that trouble is on the way, but they lay the blame not on government policies but on a drop in world commodity prices.