For many singles, however, it's only a matter of time before somebody else moves in.

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The former minister has said she wants to step down at the next election and would be "sharply focused" on the role until then before handing over to somebody else.

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But turf wars and hiding intelligence from somebody else was, again, not exactly unknown before the creation of the DNI.

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Now, one of the ways that we got in trouble before the recession was we were borrowing a lot of money to buy a lot of stuff from somebody else.

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