31.   Kenseth did the same Friday, blaming what he called an incorrect television report for starting a rumor that he was interested in driving for Richard Childress Racing.

32.   Meanwhile, telephone engineers installed extra lines outside a private house near Parliament belonging to a close associate of Portillo, starting rumors it was his campaign headquarters.

33.   Moran said some friends started a rumor in an Internet chat room that he was responsible for those attacks and he jokingly took credit for them.

34.   Nakamura, a member of the opposition New Frontier Party, said his remarks were being treated as if he had started the rumors himself.

35.   Tabouk supporters blamed Israeli intelligence for starting the rumors.

36.   These are perhaps more important questions to address than the questions of who started these rumors, and what motivated them?

37.   We leave the difficult task to the authorities of investigating who started these malicious rumors.

38.   We will move a Washington-dated story explaining how the rumor got started on the floor of the House of Representatives.

39.   Zahi Hawas, chief Egyptologist for the Giza pyramid site, said he complained to police about an Egyptian engineer he thinks started the rumor.

40.   The minister said he believed the rumor was started so that some traders could take advantage of plunging share and bond prices.