But we are no closer to discovering whether the accused is guilty or innocent of the central charge - using a four letter word to an officer of the law.
The problem is that the word compromise, once a ten-letter word, has become a four-letter word among many of the more extreme Republicans who have entered the House of Representatives and the Senate over the past few elections.
"The laugh is just as strong as if I put in the four-letter word, " Mr. Cosby says.
And Sandahl says any new development would create more sprawl, which is a four-letter word to state planners.
At a time when "risk" is the dirtiest four-letter word on Wall Street, such skills have made RiskMetrics a hot commodity.
"Pivot to me is not a four-letter word, " says Tony Conrad, a partner in the early-stage venture capital firm True Ventures.
That may be a four-letter word, but the two initiatives it encapsulates can lay the foundation for IT advancement among the have-nots.
Mr. WYSS: With the rising foreclosures and delinquencies in the subprime market, they got reminded that risk is still a four-letter word.
In one instance, Cringely asked whether there's a hidden meaning when Jobs uses a nasty four-letter word to describe his employees' subpar work.
In his words before the council, Emanuel repeatedly, emphatically distinguished the Trust from the parking meter deal, a four-letter word in this town.
"The Maloofs are a four-letter word in Sacramento, " said Carmichael Dave, a sports radio commentator who is driving an RV to NBA cities across the country to campaign for his city's cause.
As I was saying, the reason I feel comfortable using that four-letter word, love, is because the two women are doing a Valentine's Day show at Stage 72 on the Upper West Side that evening.
"As any golfer who has watched his partner shank a short approach knows, it would be absurd to accept the suggestion that the resultant four-letter word uttered on the golf course describes sex or excrement and is therefore indecent, " he wrote.
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Government ministers, union leaders and people running big airports can look after themselves even if they may be taken aback by Mr O'Leary's typically four-letter-word abuse.
Indeed, Obama used the word "crisis" four times in his speech -- one more time than he used the word perhaps most closely identified with him: Hope.
For their studies, the team studied the characteristics of word order in four language families: Indo-European, Uto-Aztec, Bantu and Austronesian.
Then students have the daunting task of learning to pronounce Mandarin, where one word can have four meanings, depending on which of four tones is used.
As we know, 13 is an unlucky number in North America and Europe, but the 14 was also avoided because the number four "sounds like an unlucky word" in Japanese.
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The number of articles that mention the word "recession" in four key newspapers doubled between November and December and increased slightly in January.
We know the following to be true: microelectromechanical systems ( MEMS) technology can foster some very inventive gadgetry, and it's a wonderful four-turn, 45-point Scrabble word (barring special tiles and presuming an abnormally-large board).
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For instance, four years ago Google launched online knockoffs of Microsoft Word and Excel (albeit with less functionality), with no response from Microsoft to protect those franchises.
Four years ago, when Meitec began using the English word "outsourcing, " the local press was baffled.
The Bible uses the word ach, brother, six times in four verses.
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Again, we haven't heard word one from Activision, and with over four months until this supposed date, things are likely subject to change (assuming these even came from the publisher in the first place, and weren't just magically pulled out of a large, black cap with frilly edges).
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Word was circulating in Geekville that the Stuxnet worm exploited four zero day errors.
Each EP - which also comes with a free download code - will have four tracks, where one must be an instrumental and another should contain spoken word.
Already, she has racked up four "good customer-contact reports" from satisfied callers who put in a good word with her supervisor.
We use four-letter functionals now and then (but only where no other, five-letter word will suffice).
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