Some of her interviews made news, including one with the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez in 2007 in which he flatly denied using performance-enhancing drugs.
Dr. Ekman, not a sports fan, nonetheless felt compelled to watch a 2007 interview of Mr. Rodriguez by Katie Couric in which he flatly denied using drugs.
And they were also flatly banned from using or disclosing trade secrets.
He sought to quiet her hand movements, gave her personal hygiene tips ("You can't do that," he told her flatly when she used her fingers to scoop up food she had dropped on a table at Taco Bell and ate it) and pointed out the unspoken social cues she often missed.
In the 1970s and 1980s, for instance, Washington flatly refused to use private contractors to put payloads into orbit.
Medicare officials considered issuing a regulation that would flatly prohibit H.M.O.'s from using their members' names and addresses for lobbying or political purposes.
The heads of six intelligence agencies, asked by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) whether they would be comfortable using Kaspersky software, all flatly said no.
You then state: "Critics point out that the arguments used are flatly untrue or misleading" and that "most of the talking points are imported from America".
When a technology journalist suggested to Steve Jobs, in 2010, that his children must have loved the just-released iPad, he replied flatly: "They haven't used it.
And last week Channel 4, a commercial-television station, broadcast a documentary arguing that the sun, not mankind, was to blame for climate change.Critics point out that the arguments used are flatly untrue or misleading, or else ignore recent evidence.
