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Examples
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Rona's experience at the oceanographic laboratory in Bornö appealed to C. Piggot and W. Urry from the Geophysical Laboratory as they investigated the radioactivity of ocean sediments.
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GeoffBro: I don’t know where Prof. Volokh found that article, but Meg Urry is the chair of the physics department at Yale and I know that she worries about women going into the sciences.
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Furthermore, in terms of protection offered, there is very little to choose between these and the more expensive "Snatch" Land Rovers, as indeed Urry would have found out if he had done some of the investigation of which the programme is so proud.
The amateurs at the Beeb Richard 2006
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"And yet we haven't got full armoured personnel carriers yet for our troops", Urry complains.
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Good - bye, authentic experience — and, Urry would add, good-bye, status.
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Relying on this expert source, Urry then asks Sue Smith from where the Iraqi forces were getting their vehicles.
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Urry then interviews Lord Drayson, the defence procurement minister, and eventually refers to an MoD press release in which reference is made to the Iraqi army having received new armoured personnel carriers at the end of May.
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"Why does it say new armoured personnel carriers then, in the Ministry of Defence press release?" demands Urry.
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"It's the amount of detail we gather during our investigations which sets File on Four apart from other programmes," says the hubristic Urry on the programme website but, hot on the trail of "Snatch" Land Rovers, he does not actually listen to his own words – or even do any research.
The amateurs at the Beeb Richard 2006
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First broadcast on 10 October, the transcript is now available, and we can now see reporter Allan Urry give a graphic example of both characteristics.
The amateurs at the Beeb Richard 2006
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