A classic tale of a mirage that evaporated on scrutiny, if you will.
At the time, the Coalition's then spokesman on scrutiny of government waste, Jamie Briggs, denounced "blatant political campaigns" and said: "If Labor were serious about reducing debt and delivering a surplus, they wouldn't engage in such wasteful spending".
The company has a two-level board, consisting of the main board, which includes the chief executive of the organisations, along with an independent chair, and a partnership board that focuses on scrutiny and monitoring.
The trip was already the focus on scrutiny because lobbyists hired by the government of Taiwan — a firm led by former Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato of New York — had helped coordinate arrangements for the trip, perhaps a violation of rules that limit lawmakers from accepting privately sponsored travel that is arranged by a lobbyist.
Mr. Curtin's figure, based on scrutiny of shipping contracts and port data, was substantially less than the widely repeated figure of 20 million, which, he showed, was an extrapolation from now-lost records pertaining to Jamaica, and the figure of 15 million used by W. E. B. Du Bois, who repeated a figure arrived at by Edward Dunbar, a 19th-century abolitionist.
Competition is tough, and selection is based on scrutiny of a candidate's research proposal by a distinguished panel of international scientists.
The focus here is on the scrutiny which is brought to bear on managers as managers, rather than as individuals.
However, that universalizing of one specific perspective or experience does not hold true on closer scrutiny.
But on closer scrutiny, no obvious gluinos appeared.
All of these arguments fall apart on closer scrutiny.
Dazzling first impressions often fade on closer scrutiny.
