Word: recheck
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...help when Executive Editor Ben Bradlee (who is married to Quinn) had to run a box saying it wasn't true that Brzezinski had unzipped his fly in front of a female reporter. Quinn had written this on the basis of a vague recollection, without bothering to recheck. The Charlotte Observer was outraged: "Such errors raise questions about the newspaper's motives as well as its competence." The Post felt obliged to run a letter from nine former members of Brzezinski's staff disputing Quinn's assertion that he had singularly failed to "inspire loyalty...
...pound the North Vietnamese into acceptance of a cease-fire and peace negotiations. Kissinger was reported by some liberal columnists to have been against the B-52 raids. Nixon says Kissinger never opposed the raids. He says he even called Kissinger the night before the Frost taping session to recheck his memory. According to Nixon, "Henry felt that he ought to try to win over those he said 'hate your guts.' They were his friends; he ran in their set. But they got the wrong impression. He supported the bombing." In fact, adds Nixon, Kissinger cabled from Hanoi...
...reason is that Denenberg and his unpaid staff (three student interns and his wife Naomi) check and recheck every word in his scripts. Moreover, his legal, academic and government experience puts him on equal footing with many company lawyers. Says he: "I know my neck is on the line...
Sabin's claims created an immediate controversy. But it was not until Sabin decided to recheck their experiments himself that he realized why. He was unable to duplicate the earlier results. His failure, he says, left him no other choice than to publish a retraction. "I've been a scientist too long not to do it," he said. "If I find something that a colleague and I have reported that I cannot confirm, it's my duty to report...
...company began by studying its space needs, down to the number of desks for personnel. Then it projected its office requirements to the year 2003. Next, Sears hired the New York design firm of Environetics to recheck the projections, draw floor plans, and figure out where every department should be located in relation to every other department. The result was a drawing that Environetics President Larry Lerner calls "a building profile"-a jagged shape that looks like a child's random construction with wooden blocks of varying sizes. When this interior scheme was shown to the building...