At this week's hearings, experts faulted the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. for not having an adequate system for sharing information, something the commission strongly recommended.

But no consensus ever formed on how the flips might have doomed some creatures and spared others, and some experts faulted the correlations as statistically insignificant.

EVEN before the China scandal broke, experts outside the Administration faulted the openness as promoting the bomb's spread.

But while experts faulted the Government for miscalculations that may have helped set off the crisis, they praised the law-enforcement authorities for negotiating skillfully to a successful conclusion.

While some experts now fault Unicef for failing to do exhaustive testing, there is no denying that the tube well program saved millions of lives.

Four experts who presented different sides of the issue, including the results of their own and historical studies on radiation effects, also faulted other panelists' data and conclusions.

The fiscal experts faulted the Mayor for failing to permanently shrink the size and cost of the government to bring expenditures in line with taxes.

The experts also faulted Native American because Amerigo Vespucci, Dr. Strong said he was told, "slandered" the peoples he encountered.

Nevertheless, experts have faulted as inadequate the F.D.A.'s surveillance system, which is aimed at detecting problems after a contraceptive product is marketed.

Other experts fault the Internet, where almost anyone can obtain controlled prescription drugs from offshore pharmacies with a few clicks on a home computer.