While Merrill's lawyers dealt with a court-ordered deadline for changing the firm's stock research reports by tomorrow, some of its senior executives tried to limit the damage to its image by minimizing the evidence Mr. Spitzer released on Monday.
"I'm not trying to minimize the Atlanta evidence," said Mr. Jones, who was the lead federal prosecutor in Birmingham when the bombing occurred.
Confounders minimize the demonstrated effect: The evidence stream was rated up if consideration of plausible residual confounders or biases would only reduce the magnitude of the observed effect, or would suggest a spurious effect when results show no effect.
Ultimately, the prosecutor will highlight to the grand jury all the evidence that justifies returning an indictment against the defendant and minimize the effect any exculpatory evidence may have.
Another was for the right for agents to accompany Yemeni investigators as they follow the evidence trail, or at least to be brought in by the Yemenis immediately afterward, to minimize the risk of having evidence tainted, inadvertently or otherwise.
Also, technology-enhanced learning can minimize the time of gathering the evidence through an assessing process, which is suitable for responding the time-limitation of a class period.
Pregnancy registries minimize the penalties of limited evidence by obtaining systematic, reliable data on whether important drugs are teratogenic by monitoring exposure in large enough numbers to provide levels of confidence regarding hazard or benefit.
Antibiotic prophylaxis is important to minimize the risk of infection, and the evidence for its use has been growing.
Second, the study paralleled tasks to minimize the task variable; however, no evidence of their supposed equivalence was offered.
Attempts to minimize the importance of that episode as evidence for helot discontent should be firmly resisted.
