Other economists challenge the report's methodology, especially its apportioning of wealth evenly between husbands and wives.

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The Founders believed that by apportioning taxes equally, taxation would not be used to divide interests.

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But apportioning funds by, say, the number of candidates a party fields would encourage even more maverick parties.

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Yet Americans should not be interested in apportioning blame across the political spectrum.

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As the violence dies down, the apportioning of blame has begun, reports the BBC's Nick Thorpe in Kosovo's capital, Pristina.

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Michael Chertoff, who served as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under the Bush administration, urged caution in apportioning blame.

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We think it is ill-advisable for anyone to start apportioning undue blame.

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But the report stopped short of apportioning blame to other institutions and agencies that may have "missed past opportunities" to stop Savile.

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However, the US Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency stopped short of apportioning blame or fines for the trading errors.

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Over the last 12 months, the economy has added a total of 2.1 million jobs, as compared to 1.9 million over the preceding 12 months (apportioning the preliminary benchmark revision).

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Apportioning blame, however, gets you only so far.

ECONOMIST: Nil return