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  • Why should Choice, a general entertainment channel, be a public-service channel, while Arena, the arts channel, is commercial and so available only to subscribers?

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  • Yet, to this day, no official has publicly challenged the accuracy of the false reports about the survey's findings on military attitudes concerning preserving the ban on open homosexuals' service in uniform - even though General Counsel Jeh Johnson has privately acknowledged in a November 1 email that those reports are untrue.

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  • Provide protocol service and assistance to the Director-General at Headquarters and airport.

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  • On Tuesday the Attorney-General Dominic Grieve said he believed the Crown Prosecution Service had taken "all steps I would have expected" to support Mrs Andrade.

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  • But the fact that the winning bid was led by the Prison Service's own deputy director-general underlines the need for both greater openness and independence in the decision process.

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  • But, like I said, that is in general - there are exceptions, and it's the times you get excellent service when you least expect it that you remember the most.

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  • At question time in the Commons on 30 April 2012, Mr Williamson said that Prime Minister David Cameron had made a "solemn pledge" before the 2010 general election "that he would veto any ministerial plans that involved front-line service cuts".

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