But Steve Prowler, music-and-games editor at Vending Times assured her the games were for all ages.
"Foreign bosses," the Times assures me, citing Bob Kiley, Pierre-Yves Gerbeau and, er, Luc Vandevelde of Marks & Spencer "are all the rage".
In February last year, the Times "assured" readers that while Burchill had discontinued her Saturday column, she would continue to write for the paper.
On January 27th, President Bush, in an interview with the Times, assured the world that "torture is never acceptable, nor do we hand over people to countries that do torture".
Campsites are scattered unobtrusively through the park and can only be occupied by one party at a time, assuring privacy.
Even if it could, Salesforce would have to spend a lot of time assuring customers that their data would not be affected.
They need to persuade America that the inspection regime is robust, while at the same time assuring other governments that they are not simply American stooges.
But the posturing is laced with a degree of caution, as city officials strive to sound the alarms of budget cuts while at the same time assuring the public that the streets remain as safe as they have ever been.
Neither vice-presidential nominee, each of whom has governed a large state, should have to spend much time assuring viewers of his executive qualifications, as Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana had to do on the Republican ticket in 1988.
He begins by remarking tersely that these days it's bankers, not religious leaders, who spend time assuring you that they're ethical -- after years in which the industry has acting anything but ethically.
