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Where Naipaul does both Africa and himself a disservice is in failing to verify much of his information.
The prosecution's negligence in failing to verify and scrutinise this material sufficiently before it was introduced led to significant expenditure on the part of the court.
The investors displayed a "total disregard for even the most basic principles of lending," failing to verify standard information about their borrowers or, in some cases, even to ask for that information.
The Chen case has rapidly become an issue on the campaign trail, with Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, accusing the American diplomats of racing to reach an agreement with China and then failing to verify it.
Finally, in April, an investigative panel at the RIKEN Centre slammed Dr Obokata for fabrication and plagiarism, and in July Nature retracted the papers.The panel did clear Dr Sasai of misconduct, but it laid upon him a "heavy responsibility" for failing to verify his star researcher's study.
However, since the site is accused of failing to verify its members' identities, it is unknown how many accounts were registered to identical individuals.
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An elaborate and complex U.S. license renewal program introduced by the N.R.C. in 1991 was scathingly criticized in 2007 by the commission's in-house safety auditor, the Office of the Inspector General, for lacking proper documentation and failing to independently verify operator-supplied data.
The former armed forces chief criticised the investigation for failing properly to verify claims that he was part of a high-profile paedophile ring.
"The government is failing to inspect, or verify when they grant permission for logging," said Astrini.
By the time Adelaide Andrews sued TRW in 1996 for failing to take reasonable steps -- like verifying not only the Social Security and license numbers but birth date, address and first name of the applicant -- to make sure it was issuing a report for the right person, more than two years had passed since the faulty report had been issued.
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