1.  Although Bush has not embraced the idea of excluding Arafat from any negotiations, he has placed most of the blame on the Palestinian leader for the continued violence.

2.  Analysts place most of the blame on a jump in broadband prices and a dearth of compelling content.

3.  Beyond such breakdowns, though, the researchers raised strong doubts about the philosophy of placing the most severely disabled in community care.

4.  Alarmed officials are placing most of the blame on shrimpers.

5.  BP has placed most of the blame on Doyon, but acknowledged that lax oversight on its part contributed to the problem.

6.  Bush placed most of the blame on Arafat.

7.  But it will place most of its energy behind a new line of Macintosh clones that were also introduced in September.

8.  But Prendergast was more angry than contrite, and determined to place most of the blame for both morning and evening chaos squarely on the engineers.

9.  CNN and the other networks placed most of the blame on erroneous data from Voter News Service, the consortium that provides polling numbers for the networks.

10.  Islamic opposition forces often accused government troops of indiscriminate violence against their civilian adherents, but commentators place most of the blame on the Islamic forces.