Word: confirmation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...officials insist they were as shocked as anyone else when the White House on May 19 fired the entire seven-person travel-office staff without any proof or even formal accusation of wrongdoing. The White House got the FBI to confirm that it was investigating the travel office, as official guidelines permit if another agency or "credible person" first breaks the news. But on Friday, May 21, as reporters' questions became far more persistent, John Collingwood, head of the FBI press office, was summoned from lunch to an impromptu meeting at the White House. With communications director George Stephanopoulos, press...
Soros the Speculator was not saying, but in a sense it didn't matter. The mere fact that he was buying into gold was enough to cause a stampede. When unexpected reports of inflation caused the price to rise again last week, it just seemed to confirm his legendary nose for the market. After all, this was the man who led the raid on the Bank of England during last September's European currency crisis, a robber baron, as some called him, who emerged with profits estimated at $2 billion by selling sterling short...
Sources said Johnson had spoken with Marshall Sunday about his illness. In an interview on Tuesday, Marshall said she often met with the chief, but she would not confirm or deny whether she had spoken with Johnson on Sunday...
Test experts and campus minority leaders interviewed this week say the results disclosed in a confidential report on admissions data only confirm their belief that the Scholastic Aptitude Test discriminates against certain ethnic and economic groups...
...alarm first sounded back in 1974, when Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California at Irvine warned about the destructive impact that CFCs could have on the atmosphere. Before banning these important industrial chemicals, however, scientists had to confirm that CFCs did in fact attack ozone and that society produced enough of the chemicals to create a ! problem. Within a few years, most scientists accepted that CFCs were a real threat, though uncertainties remained. In 1978 the U.S. banned the use of CFCs in aerosol sprays and began pushing for international controls...