1.   The administration deserves no blame for events beyond its control.

2.   And in terms of deserving the blame, the United States and Russia share the winning ticket.

3.   As much as anyone else, he deserves the blame for GM losing its dominance of the American car industry.

4.   Bush indeed deserves much blame for clumsily wrecking a painstakingly negotiated effort to respond to what looks increasingly to be a real threat of global warming.

5.   But city officials said that the baby sitter was not the only person who deserved blame.

6.   But if the President stumbles, the minority will tumble in the next election, whether or not it deserves any blame.

7.   But on another level, the blame is deserved, because leaders of both parties, stretching over decades, are heavily implicated in our hyper-expectations.

8.   Coach Marty Schottenheimer deserves blame for not coaxing the best from his team almost every week.

9.   FERC also deserves some blame for dropping the ball, Slocum said.

10.   For that, the America East deserves full blame.