"You know, you all know the statement that 'figures don't lie'?" Mr. Bruno said, responding to the assertions by Mr. Pataki and Ms. Stone that the Legislature's budget is flawed.
Responding to the assertions made on the program, Tom Pickard, deputy director of the F.B.I., said: "After an exhaustive review, it remains clear that the documents that were not uploaded in the databases given to the defense contained no information that was material to the convictions or sentences.
How do you respond to the assertion that ACT's Estimated Relationship Table is not a valid comparison of SAT scores?
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Three days later, a Superior Court judge, Roland D. Fasano, directed that Mr. Donovan appear in court on Oct. 19 to respond to the assertion that his comments were "in flagrant violation" of the no-comment order.
He also responded to the assertion in Mr. Sorkin's letter that the "unified tone" of the victims' statements suggested a desire for "a type of mob vengeance" that would seemingly negate the judge's role.
Re: "Cold Spring Harbor Finds Land for Park" [July 23], I must respond to the assertion that state officials "found out purely by accident that the property was already state-owned," and "park officials are now combing the maps looking for more".
But top D.C.M.A. officials responded to the assertion by saying that they had never heard of the safety survey, indicating that they had no knowledge of the longstanding electrical problems.
When pressed about the change on the BBC's own The Media Show on Radio 4, BBC News director James Harding responded to the assertion that this would make the BBC "more competitive with commercial players rather than less" by saying "but that's not how we explained it".
Because I was never offered the opportunity to refute or respond to the assertion that I am a rockist, I would like to request a correction: "An article on Oct. 31 suggested that Jim DeRogatis is a rockist; he denies this and contends that, like many critics of popular music, he is simply loud-mouthed, opinionated and occasionally wrong (in our own critic's view)." Jim DeRogatis Chicago.
