Tournament leader McDonald needed the intervention of good friend Nick Price to persuade the tournament organisers to give him an invitation to the event.

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Over the years, current Hall of Famers Phil Mickelson, Nick Price, Sandy Lyle and Greg Norman as well as a Hall of Fame lock, Tiger Woods, have won the event at TPC, where the tournament moved in 1982.

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Maybe the question now should be this - what is Nick Clegg's price for dropping it?

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But it charges average industry prices for its products, according to Nick Fowler, its director of global academic relations, and its price rises have been lower than those imposed by other publishers over the past few years.

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Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey told the BBC there would be some "capability gaps" and they were "the price we have to pay to get the defence budget in balance for the first time in over a decade".

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"The offer from Dish appears credible since it has the financing lined up and can justify a higher price than Softbank's offer because of the synergies with its existing operations in the US, " said Nick Brown, a telecoms analyst with Espirito Santo investment bank.

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