The magazine's report followed a National Enquirer report that Woods was having an affair with a New York nightclub hostess, an assertion the hostess vigorously denied, according to The New York Post.

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In my recent piece about Teradata Aster, I noted their assertion that new Aster tools could reduce the need for data scientists by 80 percent, using one to set up a function and then turn the operations over to business analysts.

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But today, anything seems possible as Witty is making good on his assertion that GSK is entering a new era in its history .

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Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, a group that has sued the city in the past over stop-and-frisk, said the new data was "encouraging" and was a challenge to the Bloomberg administration's assertion that wide-ranging use of the practice helps reduce crime.

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While the clock speeds don't match those of Intel's fastest chips, the Apple executive claimed his new processors beat the pants off of a 600MHz Pentium III running most applications -- an assertion that Intel will likely refute.

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Grasso's assertion was ironic, given that he presides over a scandal-tainted board of directors at the New York Stock Exchange.

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