Customers must make an appointment in order to view frames, since the area is small, but that worked to my advantage: A friendly salesgirl met me at the elevator when I arrived and tended to me quite cleverly while I tried on several pairs.

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Some may even claim an emergency in order to secure an appointment, when the reality may be somewhat different.

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If the Liaison Committee gets its way, all these would be joint appointments by the Government and Parliament - and having been involved in the appointment, parliamentary approval would be needed in order to sack them.

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"Clearly there would be some price to pay for a recess appointment, and we prefer to do things by regular order because that's what the nominee deserves, " he said.

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"We have continued to review the performance of individual stores since our appointment a month ago and have concluded that further closures are necessary in order to restructure the company for sale, " Lee Manning, joint administrator at Deloitte, said.

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At the time of their appointment, they were asked to take a fresh oath of office under an interim constitutional order issued on the same day.

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We have now received an appointment letter from Great Ormond Street Hospital in London for October 18, 2012 to take our children there in order to get a detailed genetic consultation, physiotherapy assessment, and to talk about Exon skipping plan based on results of biopsy for genes molecular diagnosis and its management.

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