Corporate annual reports frequently (i) ______ the true trajectory of a company's fiscal year. Setbacks, abandoned initiatives, and internal disagreements of every kind rarely survive into the polished final document, since (ii) _______ is what shareholders are understood to prize above all else in these disclosures, an impression that would be badly undercut by (iii) _______.

Blank (i)	Blank (ii)	Blank (iii)
A. corroborate	D. confidence	G. a strictly numerical summary
B. itemize	E. brevity	H. an unvarnished internal chronicle
C. flatten	F. discretion	I. an unusually candid press release