Billabong said the 10-day exclusivity period of takeover talks would allow Sycamore to engage an "internationally recognised accounting firm to complete a confirmatory quality of earnings analysis, typical of an acquisition debt financing".

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White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday that he would not provide "a play-by-play analysis" until a White House review of the Katrina response was complete.

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In order to shed some light on the complete, factual story, we generated a statistical analysis, which was created using information from the Congressional Budget Office, the White House Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Financial Management Service, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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