1.   And though he was an easy scapegoat early in the season, the alternatives have been worse.

2.   Bush said his interest in the presidency was an easy scapegoat.

3.   Defenders of the INS say the agency has become an easy scapegoat for security problems facing the United States.

4.   In explaining why they think Lapointe could have been singled out, his supporters say that his disability made him an easy scapegoat.

5.   Sirven, on trial in absentia, has served as an easy scapegoat.

6.   Some industry analysts say Canada is just an easy scapegoat.

7.   The easy scapegoat emerged from the shower and went right to his locker to dress.

8.   When he was on the run, Sirven made an easy scapegoat, but his testimony may now spell bad news for his codefendants and others.

9.   Wilkins has been an easy scapegoat during this long and tedious season, a role fueled by his unfounded insistence that he was still an All-Star.

10.   With plenty of jobless of their own, South Africans find immigrants easy scapegoats.