If companies make it standard practice to retaliate for unflattering reports, analysts might start coloring their research to avoid further intimidation.

Mr. Legan, a cattle farmer, said hog farmers had urged him to sponsor the bill after unflattering reports about their operations.

As the coaches were meeting in January, preparing their unflattering reports of him, Toomer was at home.

In his first year in office, Mr. Ward faced unflattering reports about public drunkenness and marital infidelity.

An unflattering report on its management practices in 1995 by the consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton has brought two years of internal re-engineering.

I hear unflattering reports.

Why couldn't he just accept the monsignor's unflattering report?

For months, Ullico, a union-owned insurance company, had kept secret an unflattering report by a special outside counsel.

In the early 19th century, an unflattering report stated:

But unflattering reports in newspapers and on network television raised doubts about Mr. Ickes at a crucial time.