This is not an exercise in assigning blame, but an exercise in seeing who knows who.

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But the political debate is more about assigning blame for the recession than about suggesting imaginative ways to give more oomph to the recovery.

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If it were then a question of assigning blame rather than credit, Mr Clinton would no doubt want to increase Alan Greenspan's ample share.

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The U.S. media and punditariat will have a field day over the next few news cycles pointing fingers, assigning blame and pontificating about political agendas as they dig through the just-released (and previously leaked) Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report.

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He's not focused on assigning blame.

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"The principals involved have nothing to gain by assigning historical blame, " said Mr. Rayburn.

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He wrote and spoke often of the Great Depression of the 1930s, generally assigning more blame to the government than to the notion of a free market system run amok.

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Assigning legal blame for any mishap would become next-to-impossible.

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For his test, the study used the three-year period from November 1 of the year after the previous election through October 31 of election year based on the logic that society tends to judge a President by change during the bulk of the presidential term, while assigning credit or blame for the start of the first year to his predecessor.

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In coming days, Rhode Islanders will follow the unfolding news from Brazil with a sense of queasy deja vu -- the rising body counts, the victim identification process, the grieving families, and the assigning (and dodging) of blame.

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