1.   Police officials blamed the deaths on the shoddily made apartment building.

2.   A council official blamed a mix-up between departments.

3.   Officials blamed the perestroika reforms as resulting in dislocation and in newly-autonomous plants producing heavy oil rather than petrol and diesel.

4.   Officials later blamed the anti-communist and anti-Gorbachev protests on small groups of extremists.

5.   Officials blamed the fall on a collapse in the stock market, lower industrial production and falling domestic investment.

6.   American officials Monday blamed disputes within the Bosnian government as the main obstacle to agreement on the shape of the new government.

7.   And he said city officials could blame only themselves if the applicants they placed on Civil Service lists were now considered unsuitable.

8.   Andersen officials blamed the shredding on the auditor, David Duncan.

9.   Arab officials blamed the Bush administration for the failure of the talks.