Even Bob Smith of New Hampshire has let it be known that he would not mind being mentioned.

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It's unusual for a procedural issue of this kind to become as charged as this one has - Mr Tyrie has let it be known that he would not wish to chair a committee that did not command all-party support, but the government seems keen to press ahead in the teeth of Labour opposition.

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Speculation this time has focused on the fact that Mr Netanyahu made tentative plans to visit Washington, DC, early in May, but the White House let it be known that the president would not be available.

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Days later, the Brazilian finance minister made it known to the Europeans and the US that Brazil would not be getting behind an alternative, emerging market candidate.

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It was announced last year that Hughes would be honoured in Poets' Corner but the exact location was not known.

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But if the Dallas paper legally obtained documents stolen by a third party, precedent suggests it is the thief and not the newspaper who would be subject to prosecution, even if the newspaper should have known that the information was stolen.

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One of Ghosn's first moves at Nissan was a shocker: He decreed that English, not Japanese, would be the official language of the Tokyo company, and he made it known that managers who learned English would advance faster than those who spoke only Japanese.

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