But that optimistic prospect had actually evaporated, sometime during those weeks, when auditors from Andersen discovered a mistake they had made, more than a year earlier, in Enron's books.
What if you discover a mistake a few days later?
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure allow a motion for reconsideration to be granted, when new evidence was discovered, a mistake of law or fact occurred or if it is warranted in the interest of justice.
During sequence analysis, we discovered a mistake in the I. limosus type strain 16S rDNA sequence deposited in GenBank (accession no. AY043374): the CGGGTC motif, repeated twice from base 956 to 967 in AY043374, is only found once in the type strain's 16S rRNA gene, such as in the Inquilinus sp. strain AU1979 (accession no. AY043375 [8]) and in our isolates.
This, as we are discovering, is a mistake.
Symantec announced that it discovered an accounting mistake and revised its fiscal first-quarter earnings, which it previously reported on July 21.
A fortnight before the graduation exercises at Radcliffe, somebody discovered that a mistake had been made about the ribbons to be used for tying up the diplomas.
A fortnight before the graduation exercises at Radcliffe, somebody discovered that a mistake had been made about the ribbons to be used for tying up… A mother did her best during her son's Easter vacation to find out how he was weathering his first year at boarding school.
Gen. Dan Harel, the Israeli military's deputy chief of staff, told reporters on Wednesday that the army "discovered a small number of mistakes, not many, among the dozens of incidents we investigated, and we have already examined them and learned lessons from them".
But last week the paper was suddenly pulled from the online edition of the Journal of General Virology when, in a final check, an independent lab discovered a possible case of mistaken identity.
