The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) acquired the nickname of the Serious Flawed Office in its early years of operation as a unit fighting big financial crime in the 1990s.

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The report says the new qualifications "reinforced the trend" of schools running the GCSE schools years (Years 10 and 11) as a "tactical operation to secure certain grades and combinations of grades".

BBC: Pressurised teachers 'marked GCSE too generously'

The Ofqual report says the new qualifications "reinforced the trend" of schools running the GCSE schools years (Years 10 and 11) as a "tactical operation to secure certain grades and combinations of grades".

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While smuggling has been taking place into and out of Iraq ever since Operation Desert Storm (just as it historically flourished in the region for thousands of years before, ) air delivery is particularly appealing insofar as it permits these transactions to take place in a relatively secure and timely fashion.

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Domineco Masciopinto, described as the boss of the operation, was jailed for 14 years.

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The government should at the very least agree to a full-scale independent review of the bill after two years' operation, as many have recommended.

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Given the close relationship between Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and Saddam Hussein (the former served for years as the latter's KGB case officer), the apparent compromise of that operation may have occurred when sensitive intelligence collected by the Lourdes sigint facilities was turned over to Baghdad.

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Suddenly, tens of thousands of government employees had to move north as various ministries transferred sections of their operation to the city over a period of two years.

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As for GM's European operation, it has needed a massive overhaul for years, but because of political pressures and resistance from European labor unions, the company has been able to make only baby steps thus far.

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