Word: confirmation
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...urbanized and richer aspects of the city, slip into oblivion. The impression one gets from the movie is that the City of Joy is not only entirely impoverished and disease-ridden, but a City of Contention. For someone who has never seen a movie about India before, this could confirm all the negative stereotypes that people foster. However, this problem reflects the content, not the execution of the movie. City of Joy does successfully manage to defy the stereotype of India as the mysterious and impregnable country. It presents the poor in India in an authentic perspective...
Ashe, 48, found out about the infection in 1988. Until last week he kept quiet, figuring that, unlike basketball superstar Magic Johnson, he was no longer a public figure. But USA Today approached him to confirm what had until then been a rumor, and Ashe reluctantly spoke...
...board assigns an investigator to the case. The investigator contacts Gault and attempts to confirm the allegations and obtain the patient's identity...
...England Telephone officials could not be reached to confirm Fujita's statement...
Further supporting the "reporter as virus" thesis, and serving as the impetus for this correction of the record, the gist of your erroneous information was spread by the Gazette in their March 13 issue, without an attempt to confirm its accuracy. (Assuming the Gazette was otherwise correct, Harvard suffered no losses due to this most recent viral nuisance.) Joseph G. Sharp Manager, Facilities and Administrative services