31.   Levy had no interest in laying the blame on Hobert, who was pressed into service for the first time, or anyone else.

32.   Luntz, the millennium-bug exorcist, contends that Lubs is laying blame in the wrong places.

33.   Not everyone lays the blame for erosion of presidential power at the feet of the Clinton White House.

34.   On a visit to New York to speak to the Security Council in January, Kabila laid the blame for continued fighting in Congo on the Rwandans and Ugandans.

35.   Officials have laid the blame for many of those fires on peasants burning off forest fields in drought conditions.

36.   Rep. Major Owens, a Brooklyn Democrat, also laid blame for the fare increase at the feet of Giuliani and Pataki.

37.   Results from a preliminary Interior Department investigation laid the blame not on the precision of the data or the accuracy of the calculations but on matters of human judgment.

38.   Taking credit and laying blame are by no means the only factors that cloud the issue.

39.   TCI lays the blame for many of its problems on the companies it absorbed, not its remarkable growth.

40.   The blame was laid at the feet of Mexican authorities.