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.
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.
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.
More than that, there seems to be a broader refrain among the state's own Congressional delegation that unless the governor retools his plan, he is jeopardizing the credibility of even the most legitimate aid the state and city are entitled to.
Noting the widespread public outrage unleashed over the Treasury's huge payments to the American International Group, the failing insurance conglomerate, Mr. Barofsky warned that Treasury officials were jeopardizing the credibility of their efforts by not requiring companies to disclose far more about their use of taxpayer money.
"This jeopardizes the credibility of our nation if one man can usurp the entire system set up by our founding fathers over something this significant".
Failure to disclose a competing interest, however, could jeopardize the credibility of authors if an actual conflict were discovered at a later time.
"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.
"Every day of delay in resolving this situation will erode economic confidence, jeopardize job creation and undermine the credibility of the United States in global financial markets," it said.
But the credibility of the system is jeopardized when arbitrators can render decisions without explanation.
