When UAL announced late last month that it would likely post losses in the last two quarters of the year--its first losses in 25 quarters--blame was placed on the shoulders of the company's 10, 500 pilots.
The decline in service standards - which unions blame on a shortage of trained staff - are likely to cost the company dear.
This French-educated former Cabinet minister places the blame squarely on non-governmental agencies, or NGOs.
Nevertheless, it's disappointing that a movie so intent on immersing us in the moment should sink into such a swamp of back story and then -- in the sorry pop-psych tradition of "Ordinary People" -- lay the blame squarely on Mom.
Indeed, though there's no denying music's old business model has taken a massive hit in recent years--blame it on piracy, the Web or the advent of the recordable CD--there's still plenty of money to be made in the music industry.
Many blame her ill-health on the pressure to produce a male heir .
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It would be unfair to blame poor asset-management performance on the merger, however.
But the Vatican does not accept Pius XII was culpable of assenting to the Holocaust, and - even if it did - it would be impossible to cast blame on a pope whom the current pope has begun moves to beatify.
But it lays much of the blame on BAA's near-monopoly on air travel in Britain.
When anything unpleasant happens within the family thereafter, the blame is heaped on the hapless dead relation - for sleeping on duty.
Although the media - which are openly biased in Livni's favor - have placed most of the blame for this state of affairs on Mofaz, the truth is that Livni has not shied away from backroom deals with influence peddlers selling votes.
It is why the mainstream left cannot credibly promise to reverse globalisation, preferring instead to blame the crisis on ill-regulated markets.
If the bailout only delivers more pain then the blame will fall on Germany - as the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has hinted.
In Italy, meanwhile, where police have foiled a number of attacks they blame on al-Qaeda, the courts have convicted people for what the authorities say were al-Qaeda related activities.
Both parties cast blame on the other for the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts but gave little guidance on what to expect in the coming weeks.
This is one more thing to blame on the year-end fiscal cliff frenzy.
Both Mr Schlesinger and Major-General Fay blame the abuse on the confusion following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Blame that partly on the emerging-market flu which last year hit Brazil, culminating in the January devaluation of its currency, the real, and which this year has affected Argentina.
Some doctors, academics and patient advocates blame the lapses on a medical-industrial complex made up of acquiescent regulators, gadget-happy cardiologists and surgeons who rake in consulting and appearance fees from device makers, and pushy device makers themselves.
Even a reputation for competence was undermined in 1996 after an official report into a prison break-out put the blame on a system riddled with deficiencies.
Back in Santiago, the former dictator, who likes to blame his arrest on an international left-wing plot, might well use his undoubted political gifts and influence to damage Ricardo Lagos, the current opinion-poll favourite for the presidency.
MPs were debating the Independent Hillsborough Panel Report, which last month found police and emergency services had made "strenuous attempts" to deflect the blame for the disaster - in which 96 people died - on to fans.
Mr Oswald finds that in many countries high levels of owner-occupation (and hence a small rental sector) are partly to blame for high rates of unemployment, on top of factors such as over-generous social-security benefits and high minimum wages.
At that very moment Wes Welker was downstairs in the stadium, moist-eyed, putting the blame on himself.
Every crisis begets finger-pointing, and the blame now is falling on the rating agencies that helped structure these exotic instruments.
Gates made it clear that, unlike Abu Ghraib, the blame was not going to fall on just low-ranking personnel in this scandal.
Blame it on stressful jobs, salt-laden fast-food, smoking and lack of exercise.
The authorities blame unexpected storms, tree branches falling on high-voltage power lines (as in the Italian example) and other acts of nature.
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