Mr. Lipman said that was "a misstatement of the record".
"That was a misstatement".
Because publicly traded corporations must properly report the value of options on their financial statements, any backdating could result in a misstatement that can be the basis for a charge of securities fraud.
you know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things — millions of words a day — so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.' "The Clinton campaign is clearly eager to put this controversy to rest before it drags down her Pennsylvania campaign.
This is required even if there is no evidence that such a misstatement has happened or will happen.
"A politician having dinner, having a discussion and making a misstatement, that doesn't offend me," said Mr. Doria, a Corzine supporter.
Our discussion of the data for this figure made a misstatement that combined the results from the whole brain and the cell culture.
However, on page 5, the same study is cited as demonstrating that "highly expressed genes in flowering plants are more compact [ 14]." I think the latter sentence represents a misstatement that should be corrected.
In court, a few days later, Steven D. Goldby, chief executive of Symyx Technologies and a PeopleSoft director, testified that one of the reasons Mr. Conway got the boot was that he made a misstatement to analysts at a meeting on Sept. 4, 2003.
Then he said that the comments were a "misstatement" and that he had "misspoke".
