The fevered activity seems to have reached a peak last March, when few investors had any inkling of serious problems at Enron.
If we had been given even an inkling of the problems the planners hoped to solve -- not just of crumbling travertine, bad acoustics and backstage cramping but of intermittently splendid yet mostly sterile, wasted public space -- and of the marvelous transformations that a bit of inspired tweaking might achieve, there could have been a bubbling up of ideas, a ferment of debate.
The first inkling of a problem came in October when Agassi and Rogers announced they were severing their business ties.
Asad R. Rahmani, an ornithologist who was a professor at Aligarh Muslim University in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, got his first inkling of the problem when he read an item about it in a local newspaper in 1996.
Gary Peterson, the state's assistant bridge engineer, said he knew of no questions that had ever been raised about the gusset plates, no unique qualities to distinguish them from those on other bridges, no inkling of any problem during decades of inspections of the bridge.
In the transcript of a March 18 court hearing, David N. Kelley, deputy United States attorney, told Judge Rakoff that "the moment we had an inkling" of a problem with the case, it was investigated aggressively and immediate action was taken to release Mr. Higazy.
"Once there is the first inkling of a problem, parents should be brought in…the old proverb is true, it does take a village to raise a child — and it's important that everyone is on the same page".
Ms. Perretta of TWP said she had an inkling of Consolidated's problems.
To get an inkling of the potential problems, one simply has to look at another quality-improvement program: surgical report cards.
Mr. Skilling maintains that when he resigned in August, he had no inkling of any accounting problems -- testimony several lawmakers say they find hard to believe.
