Since then, Leanne Wood has written to her fellow leaders asking them to add their signatures to a letter that says: "As leaders of the Welsh political parties, we note with alarm that the current proposals for regional pay to be gradually rolled out across some parts of the public sector have been floated without prior Welsh consultation".

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But Barclays was still raising the alarm a year later when former CEO Robert Diamond discussed Libor with current Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker in October 2008.

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The president, who said the virus is a "cause for concern but not alarm, " added the government has anti-viral treatment to treat the current strain of H1N1.

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Even in a country which has run a current-account deficit for 25 consecutive years, deficits of this magnitude should ring alarm bells.

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The current-account deficit, now around 5% of GDP, has reached levels which alarm some economists.

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