1.   But for decades, critics have faulted Lucent and its predecessors as slow at turning the bright ideas into market-leading products that produce a steady revenue flow.

2.   But Gore was calmer than in the first debate, when some critics faulted him as too combative.

3.   Conservative critics fault the administration for stacking the board with people whose positions on race relations mirror its own, like support for preference-based affirmative action programs.

4.   Conservative critics fault Khatami for stressing political reform over economic nuts and bolts.

5.   Critics also fault the authorities for lax enforcement of fire codes in cybercafes and other public places.

6.   Critics had widely faulted the school for destroying its anthrax collection, saying key evidence in the attacks may have gone up in smoke.

7.   Critics have faulted Gibson as an incompetent and corrupt administrator who failed to set up a search committee for a successor to Benjamin F. Chavis.

8.   Critics have faulted World Bank lending policies, saying some projects -- even those designed to help the environment -- have effectively hurt it in other, unforseen ways.

9.   Critics also fault SUVs for their below-average fuel economy.

10.   Critics have faulted the media for relying to much on anonymous sources, airing unsubstantiated rumors and substituting opinion for fact.