"You always have to ask yourself, even in these tough times, 'Am I jeopardizing credibility in dunking for dollars?'" said Harvey Robins, a senior official for former Mayors Edward I. Koch and David N.
Indeed, most humanitarian organizations cling to their independence and worry that any semblance of cooperation with the military might jeopardize their credibility.
Tempers flared in November when Annan sent a letter to Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (see Biographies) warning that the planned military assault against insurgents in Fallujah might jeopardize the credibility of the upcoming January 2005 elections.
Bruno is now under indictment for corruption (he maintains his innocence), and when an elected official warned Bloomberg that his term-limits maneuvering could jeopardize his credibility with Albany lawmakers at a time when he would need their support on a vital issue like renewing schools control, Bloomberg replied, "We'll make a deal with Shelly".
For the last three years, it hasn't approached that level, and there's tremendous uncertainty about acting too soon – and causing the economy to stall altogether – or delaying and perhaps allowing bubbles to take shape and jeopardize the credibility of the Fed itself as a policy-making institution.
Failure to disclose a competing interest, however, could jeopardize the credibility of authors if an actual conflict were discovered at a later time.
Both Popper and Ingelfinger seemed to appreciate that media professionals value a definitive claim, and that once that claim is made it could undermine or jeopardize scientific credibility.
"A premature decision about causality could jeopardize the credibility of the entire review process and all of the other, established effects of secondhand smoke," says Michael Thun, national vice president of epidemiology and surveillance research for the American Cancer Society.
James Tierney, a former attorney general of Maine who now directs the attorney general program at Columbia Law School, said Mr. Reilly would be jeopardizing the credibility of his office if he sought a stay when he did not believe it was legally justified.
Saying large payments to rich farmers jeopardized the credibility of farm subsidies, the Senate voted today to cut in half the amount of money the biggest farmers could receive.
"People said, 'You're jeopardizing your credibility by saying what should happen,' " he says, "and you know, we all looked at each other and said, first of all, science is not as objective as people think it is.
