• Wallwork won a Premier League winners' medal in 2001, but the next year went to West Bromwich Albion on a free transfer Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson called the "Bosman of the year".

    BBC: Ronnie Wallwork

  • The hero of both the book and the film is a young thug called Alex.

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  • First Minister Alex Salmond has called for the money to be returned.

    BBC: Ian Taylor

  • "United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson had called for an end to the hostility between his club and Liverpool, " Vallely wrote in an article for The Church Times.

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  • No one has ever called Alex Rodriguez gritty, but his character didn't seem to be an issue when he was carrying the Yankees to a championship in 2009.

    WSJ: D-Backs Get Down and Dirty

  • Following last week's controversial game, Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, called the Old Firm clubs to a summit, to be held on Tuesday, to discuss Scottish football at the request of Strathclyde Police.

    BBC: Rangers Supporters Trust calls for Neil Lennon probe

  • With the Yankees trailing Orioles by a run in the ninth inning of a pivotal Game 3 of the ALDS, manager Joe Girardi called Alex Rodriguez back to the bench and inserted pinch hitter Raul Ibanez in his place.

    FORBES: Ibanez Hits For A-Rod: Great Now, Troubling For The Yankees' Future

  • He's called Alex Salmond.

    BBC: Scottish independence: Meeting set to seal referendum deal - BBC News

  • Last July, roughly three years on from the release of Angry Birds, the company released a new puzzle game called Amazing Alex, and with plenty of fanfare.

    FORBES: Another Angry Birds Manager Flies The Nest

  • " He called the portraitist Alex Katz "the Norman Rockwell of the intelligentsia.

    WSJ: Acerbic Art Critic Who Wrote 'The Fatal Shore'

  • But First Minister Alex Salmond, who has called for full fiscal powers for Scotland, said the proposals had been overtaken by the UK government's plan to pay for a rise in the income tax allowance with personal increases in National Insurance, under which money would go straight to the Treasury.

    BBC: Queen's Speech outlines new Scottish Parliament powers

  • Ms Baillie called for Health Secretaty Alex Neil to intervene, take control and take responsibility for the health board.

    BBC: Hospital ward

  • The comments came during a DUP motion which called on Environment Minister Alex Attwood to bring forward proposals to empower local councils to require that sites, which contain no existing buildings or structures and are awaiting development, be made secure.

    BBC: Securing undeveloped sites

  • Housing and Communities Minister Alex Neil's amendment, which called for the necessary powers to be given to ensure effective enforcement of any new legislation on factoring, was also passed without opposition.

    BBC: Decision time

  • Housing and Communities Minister Alex Neil saw his amended motion, which called for backing of the Scottish government's helpline for male victims, was carried with 85 MSPs voting for it, 17 against and with 14 abstentions.

    BBC: Decision time

  • And this was coming from the institution somewhat sardonically called, by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, The World's Greatest University, a place that for centuries relied on its reputation for academic excellence, not its life-comforts and other amenities, to attract the best and the brightest.

    FORBES: The Coddling Campus

  • Conservative MSP Alex Johnstone, whose family runs a dairy farm, called for food quality to be balanced against affordability.

    BBC: School meal

  • Tory rural affairs spokesman Alex Fergusson welcomed the statement that the Army should have been called in sooner to deal with the crisis.

    BBC: Disease handling praise for Scotland

  • Alex Hall, originally from the UK, runs a firm called Vineyard Intelligence, which advises investors, individuals and companies who would like to buy vineyards in Bordeaux.

    BBC: Chinese connoisseurs buy up Bordeaux's wines

  • Alex Salmond of the Scottish Nationalists thought he had read the public mood when he called the bombing a folly that would unite the Serbs.

    ECONOMIST: Flying blind?

  • Alex Neil MSP, chairman of the Scottish Parliament's Enterprise and Culture Committee, called for the agency to be open about its budgets.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | Agency in budget overspend claims

  • "I think it was called 'I'm Having Fun at the Fair, '" she tells NPR's Alex Cohen, her big blue eyes peering out beneath bangs that have inspired fashion columns.

    NPR: Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward as She & Him

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