Management typically gets too much credit when a stock has risen to extremes and too much blame when it falls.

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Yet calls for Wall Street to pay for Main Street seem to deflect too much blame from Washington to Wall Street.

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Niese was reluctant to blame his problems on too much rest.

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Burkhard said he feels Bush is one of the most overworked presidents in history and has shouldered too much blame for the current state of the economy.

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Do New York women complain too much and blame men for their singleness?

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Some entrepreneurs blame their lax attitude on knowing too much about their employees.

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But the report said to place too much emphasis on individual blame was to risk perpetuating the illusion that removal of particular individuals is all that is necessary.

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Some observers eventually came to blame much of the dotcom implosion on too easy access to day-trading by non-professionals.

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Free-traders hope they will not demand too much, for fear of killing the Doha round and attracting the blame.

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Farmers are inclined to blame big supermarkets and catering firms for not buying enough British produce, and for charging too much for what they do buy.

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