Here's a new twist on earnings releases that goes beyond cooking up figures: Just issue flat-out incorrect financial results, then hope investors don't notice when you later file corrected earnings with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
"You see a lot of times in these races, it's a question of luck, good or bad, technical issues, flat tires and crashes," Armstrong said later, after experiencing nearly all of those misfortunes in the 132-mile stage that began in Wanze, Belgium.
After initially issuing flat denials of a problem and then blaming a typical winter temperature inversion — despite above-average temperatures throughout November and early December — the Iranian government has since resorted to drastic compensatory measures like sudden two-day public holidays and harsh traffic-control directives.
But most computers are still shipped with the standard-issue flat keyboard that's been around since the invention of the PC.
Wallace also called colouring of the early issues flat and static, which made it fairly uninteresting.
IT architect and Flickr user Mirco Wilhelm couldn't log on to his 5-year old account yesterday, and when he asked the Flickr team about this issue they flat out told him they had accidentally flushed his entire account, and the 4,000 photos that were in it, straight down the drain.
Once one company issued a flat denial, the others felt they had to follow suit, he said.
Then, last week, Fox News reported that agency officials had refused desperate requests for help from operatives under fire in Libya, and the agency issued a flat denial.
The loans typically are issued for flat fees, often $78 or $88, which usually equate to annual interest rates of more than 100percentt and sometimes as much as 1,500 percent.
Three of the five permanent members of the council abstained, and Iraq, upon whose co-operation the whole scheme relies, had issued a flat rejection of the resolution before it had even been adopted.The new resolution makes many concessions to Iraq.
