It said banks, mortgage companies, investors and credit-rating agencies all share in the blame for creating the crisis.
In fact, in the blame game now raging, no one is playing their part more pointedly than Ms. Whitman.
We lose our confidence and become world record breakers in the blame game (more on that in a minute).
She was stuck in the blame game that was focused squarely on the challenge of being a woman and that she could not get a break.
So when you are engaged in the blame game, you may forget that you are every bit as responsible for the relationship dynamic as the other person.
But several pundits and politicians in the region blame their difficulties on rich foreigners: in particular, on Americans.
But the minister in Reykjavik says the blame for overfishing cannot be laid solely at their feet.
Many people, such as bond-market guru Bill Gross, the managing director of fixed-income manager PIMCO, have said that part of the blame in the mortgage crisis lies with the rating agencies who gave mortgage securities high markets.
Some in the industry blame over-eager lenders.
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Between puffs of his cigar in a New York City hotel suite, he says that the lawsuit in Texas is largely to blame for the drop in Carso's stock.
Neither FAA officials, who merely provide guidance, nor the airlines, which make their own rules, are motivated to put themselves in the path of blame by allowing the barest possibility of avoidable catastrophe.
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In the Court of Appeal ruling, Lord Justice Sedley said Ms Gibb had done nothing wrong and the blame allocated in the report was accepted by the trust's board who all later resigned.
In February a House of Lords committee, chaired by Lord Jauncey, did clear the two men of blame in the crash.
The Bush team shares, moreover, in some of the blame for what Fingar subsequently did on Iran by acquiescing to the granting of so much authority over U.S. intelligence products to so political - and overtly hostile - an individual.
Many in China have concluded that the blame for Japan's economic malaise in the 1990s lay largely with the appreciation of the yen.
And they did not provide the mechanisms by which the citizens of the union could feel they were both in part to blame for the problem, as some are, and in a place to help find a solution.
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No, instead we indict BPA. Rather than go nutso about all the phytoestrogens in infant formula, we blame the liner of the can, despite the fact that the difference in exposure from the two sources is sometimes impossible to calculate because human BPA levels are often too low to measure.
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Some in the music industry blame the general economy for the ticket slump, others the often ridiculously high ticket prices.
Whatever is going wrong in the economy, blame it on the weather.
It could turn out differently, but I suspect the Republicans are either about to cave in or to lose the blame game.
Whether or not there's consistent logic behind it, the shift in blame from customs to part suppliers only reinforces doubts about the company's prospects.
As an addendum, you might have guessed by now what room you might want to be in to avoid the blame: It is the executive suite.
In truth, the blame lies with two brothers with two different views of Labour's future and with rival allegiances to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - the men who used to say that they too were like brothers until they became embittered rivals.
The Citigroup Global Markets case is yet another illustration that, no matter how much some in the press and the public might yearn to identify clear villains whose fraud is to blame for the meltdown in the CDO market and the resulting 2008 financial crisis, when you investigate the facts, that is not the reality.
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Last summer the company suffered an embarrassing setback as overheated computers erupted in flames, with the blame placed squarely on Sony batteries.
The lawyers blame the maganese in the welding rods, or more specifically manufacturers like Lincoln Electric for failing to warn those workers of the risk of manganese poisoning.
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