This is a wretched time to be holding a business-related discussion anywhere other than the confines of your office.Just ask AIG, a beleaguered insurer under fire for "unwarranted and outrageous" junkets, including a sales trip to a Californian beachside resort and an alleged £50,000 jaunt to a manor house in Dorset, Britain.
The BBC -- as well as its independent competitor, ITN -- has been accused of showing an antiwar bias by emphasizing military blunders, British deaths from American fire and unwarranted civilian casualties instead of the more palpably gung-ho pictures that can characterize American network coverage.
Israel and the Palestinian territories At least five unarmed young Palestinians, including a 21-year-old woman, have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in 13 days since the start of the year, prompting mounting concern about the unwarranted use of live fire.
That is because Robert Ray, the Independent Counsel who succeeded Ken Starr, is expected to submit his report on suspected abuses of power in the firing and subsequent unwarranted humiliation and prosecution of White House travel office employees as Clinton took office.
Suffice it to say that Charlotte Parry is a sweetly sympathetic governess whose flashes of fire never seem unwarranted or hysterical.
Now PC Harwood risks being charged with manslaughter.Unfortunately this is not the only time in recent years that police have come under fire for appearing to use unwarranted aggression.
The general's sensitivity on the subject was acute because similar programs the drug office has for the television and magazine industries have drawn fire from outside critics as unwarranted government propaganda.
The I.R.S. said it fired four employees for threatening an unwarranted audit, one for covering up a mistake, two for understating their income on tax returns and 102 others for not filing tax returns.
Like the fire alarm, the asbestos warning appears to have been unwarranted, and the Knicks will soon resume their normal schedule.
Of course, Intel has fired back and said that the FTC's case is "misguided and unwarranted".
