There have long been calls for similar disclosure in China, where official corruption is endemic, and the debate gave broader publicity to those calls.

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On a visit to Havana last year, Jimmy Carter, a former American president, gave the dissenters unprecedented publicity by praising the Varela Project during a televised speech.

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While the number of family doctors taking part in the national day of action may have been small, the publicity generated gave the impression of a profession on the verge of strike action.

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The ad featured Mr Quackenbush in a double act with Shaquille O'Neal, a popular basketball player, and gave the commissioner useful statewide publicity.

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It was Eminem who gave Mister Cartoon the kind of publicity money can't buy.

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That most enduring source of publicity, personal recommendation, gave them a fair wind.

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In June, the ministry's Public Health Council also gave its approval, provided a number of minor conditions were met, such as giving publicity to sexually transmitted diseases.

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