1.   The current board leaders accuse their predecessors of negotiating a bad deal with the state that straps residents with a future of increased monthly fees.

2.   Adhikari, who heads the first Communist government in the Himalayan state, has accused his predecessor from the Nepali Congress of tilting toward India.

3.   As soon he was appointed, Likulia accused his predecessor Leon Kengo wa Dondo, another Mobutu crony, of siphoning off funds earmarked for the army.

4.   At the time, Yeltsin accused his predecessor, Alfred Kokh, of giving preference to Oneximbank, the Russian commercial bank that won both deals.

5.   Brevnov took over from Dyakov as chief executive last spring and has accused his predecessors of massive diversions of company funds and mismanagement.

6.   During his presidential campaign, Bush accused his predecessor, Bill Clinton, of an overly friendly relationship with China.

7.   Earlier this month, the latest special prosecutor in the case accused his predecessor of having obstructed the investigation.

8.   Mexican officials whose predecessors were accused of criminal ties and corruption are now gaining the trust of their U.S. counterparts in the fight against crime.

9.   The Bosnian Serb president on Monday accused her predecessor and top war crimes suspect, Radovan Karadzic, of orchestrating her detention and questioning by Serbian police.

10.   The Segodnya report said Kviraya had accused his predecessor, Igor Giorgadze, of arranging the murder on orders from Moscow.