After a back and forth of claims and counter claims, the Ferrell and David lowered the bar and offered to pay J.
Pallab Ghosh assesses the science behind the claims and counter claims.
The former chief inspector of schools in England has been asked to examine claims that the exams watchdog, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), pressurised exam boards into lowering results to counter claims that A-levels had been dumbed down.
Over the days to come there will no doubt be renewed focus on the claims and counter claims about exactly what Lady Thatcher and her officials had been willing to concede to the prisoners as those hunger strikes dragged on.
In a complicated series of claims and counter-claims she had confessed to the murder and then retracted that confession.
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The limits placed on the mission meant that it was unable to verify any of the claims and counter-claims it heard in Algeria.
At a moment when nationalistic claims and counter-claims are resounding over the ice-floes, the region's intractability still forces its would-be conquerors to rub along.
For journalists trying to disentangle the claims and counter-claims of politicians against hourly and daily deadlines, it has become an indispensable source of anti-spin.
At the heart of the debate to date about the FS-X agreement have been various claims and counter-claims concerning the effect of the F-16 technology and manufacturing know-how the United States will supply Japan on the latter's competitive industrial position.
Politicians under fire have a habit of throwing back counter-claims of wrongdoing by others.
The scene is now set for further appeals and counter-claims, which could last for another three years or more.
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Prof Andy Phippen, of Plymouth University, who has studied the problem, said teachers who had had false allegations made about them could be reluctant to counter the claims officially.
The forum, which is led by Sir Trevor Chinn, chairman of Lex, a car-selling and leasing firm, was set up to counter the claims of the road lobby that it is ignored in Whitehall.
Instead the overriding emotion may well be one of relief - relief that a summer tainted by allegations of spot-fixing against members of the Pakistan team, ridiculed counter-claims made by the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman and occasional flare-ups between players is finally over.
The confusion at a procedural level for the legal advisor attempting to weigh the materiality issue within the overall analysis of liability exposure might be the existence of counter factual claims suggesting that Shariah has a peaceful face in addition to its connection to Islamic terror.
As it is, the episode may end up discrediting Mr Bush because it implies that his administration has sought to suppress evidence that runs counter to its claims about Iraq's military scheming.
During the meeting, the software giant e-mailed the media to counter Bostock's claims.
General Hayden claims that counter-terrorist efforts are going quite well.
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It says that since 1990 it has filed 93 cases challenging false and misleading weight-loss claims involving over-the-counter drugs, dietary supplements, commercial weight-loss centers, weight-loss devices and exercise equipment.
Bankrupt Lehman has been in talks for over a year with about a dozen big-bank counter-parties about the value of the their claims.
In response, Marzouki filed a counter-suit on Monday, calling Williams' claims "ridiculous" and "patently false, " and accused Williams of breaking off the engagement.
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