81.   Japanese traders blame the decline on Hong Kong.

82.   Juniper blamed the decline on cautious spending by customers and service providers amid a slumping economy.

83.   Loveday blamed the decline of the dugong on another target of the conservationists, the real estate developers gobbling up swathes of Queensland coast.

84.   Malaysian officials have blamed a decline in tourism on media reports carried worldwide on the haze caused by Indonesian forest fires.

85.   Officials have blamed the decline on slowing economies in its major tourism markets in Europe and the United States.

86.   Several tenants blamed the decline in business on the ongoing fluctuations of the rupiah against the U.S. dollar.

87.   Robert Growney, president and chief operating officer, blamed the decline in profits on increases in manufacturing costs and operating expenses.

88.   The decline is blamed on the drop in worldwide gold prices.

89.   The decline was blamed on drought, as well as the continuing collapse of Russian agriculture.

90.   The Bank of Portugal blamed the decline in part on a progressive weakening of the impact of interest rate cuts.