Nazir Alli, the company's boss, has been forced to resign as the fall-guy.

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Then along came an inviting offer from Tyson's people, who were seeking a fall-guy to launch the 38-year-old's latest comeback.

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The exposure of Mr Khan, a metallurgist, as the hub of a network of nuclear-technology proliferation has left many seeing him as a fall-guy for crimes that could not have been committed without the knowledge of the army top brass.

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Lead defense attorney Ted Wells portrayed Libby as a fall-guy caught up in a White House effort to protect presidential political adviser Karl Rove, who turned out to be one of the sources for Robert Novak's column on July 14, 2003, that outed Plame.

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"I'd used my first aid in the office, but that had amounted to calling 999, but this was a guy we'd just seen fall off a mountain in temperatures of -7, " said Mr Davies.

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Rumors have been swirling that the software giant likely will announce a delay of Fusion at Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) OpenWorld next month, and Wookey is the designated fall guy, according to a person familiar with the company.

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LONDON--It might not have been all his fault, but Michael Martin has become the fall guy for the expenses controversy that has riled British politics over the last two weeks.

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