Producing, disseminating and verifying information is costly, and disclosures can cause competitive harm and proprietary costs.

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Asking a tough question or verifying the information through independent sources is not insulting, or insensitive, it's our job.

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BofA is looking into whether or not the bank put thousands of homeowners out on the street too quickly, without verifying the information in the foreclosure case documents.

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For the past 18 months AWE has co-operated with non-nuclear Norway and a London-based NGO, the Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (Vertic), on techniques for verifying that when a country promises to cut weapons, it really does.

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The researchers had no way of verifying how many patients actually filled -- and took -- their bisphosphonate prescriptions, and they had incomplete information on the participants' other potential risk factors for cancer, such as smoking and body weight.

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