1.   A Mattel spokesman said that the company had done due diligence on the Learning Company and that its problems came as a big surprise.

2.   Due diligence was done.

3.   Freeport spokesman Garland Robinette said the company is still doing due diligence, that is, assaying the mine, and that no public report has been made.

4.   ITT was also concerned about allowing VNU to do due diligence because of the competitive information the company could extract.

5.   They threw money at anything without doing due diligence.

6.   Typically when a company does due diligence, if it finds seriously unanticipated problems, it can still back out.

7.   You put together a SWAT team of people to go out and do due diligence and then help with the integration, too.