The software giant's behavior had more to do with its manipulation of the timing of reporting revenues than with any outright fraud.
The football authorities were quick to understand the potential value of the internet and fought with newspapers over rights to photos and the timing of reports, yet many clubs were slow to grasp the value of gaining an internet audience by releasing news first on their own sites.
Both systems differ with respect to the timing of reporting and the precision of the reported items.
This result, again, holds if the timing of reporting is irrelevant for contractability and no performance measures besides accounting measures can be used.
The timing of reports that Spears' relationship is in trouble and news of her ex's new relationship could be coincidental, but we couldn't help but notice that it sounds a lot like what Alexander was spouting back when Britney first became engaged to Trawick in 2011.
From a grammatical perspective, the timing of reporting verbs has an influence on the temporal interpretation of event-predicates in the scope of quoted speech.
William C. Powers Jr., the dean of the University of Texas School of Law, who is chairman of the Enron special committee preparing the report, declined to discuss the timing of the report's release or to give details.
David Sandalow, the assistant secretary of energy for policy and international affairs, who oversaw preparation of the Energy Department report, said in a telephone interview that the timing of the report's release and the American-China cabinet meetings was coincidental.
When a news report earlier this week said Parcells was reconsidering that decision, Parcells denied it, then intimated that the timing of the report was perhaps intended to hurt his chances of making the Hall of Fame.
In that sense the timing of the report could not have been more fortunate, since, despite the obvious accusatory nature of the Novetta findings, the report -- by leveling the diplomatic playing field as outlined above -- could in fact have the reverse effect and make both sides more amendable to cooperation in cyberspace in the weeks ahead.
