Advised that the Press and Journal had published a letter from a business leader backing Scotland's renewable prospects, Mr Gray pondered aloud whether said business leader had seen the letter prior to publication.

BBC: From hand-kissing to face-skelping

Our business editor added that Mr Cable's letter, dated 8 February, gives a "brutally frank analysis of what he sees as the shortcomings in the government's industrial and economic policies".

BBC: Cable calls for RBS to be split up

Business secretary Vince Cable's re-leaked letter which emerged last week said the government lacked "a compelling vision".

BBC: Competitiveness before breakfast lunch and dinner

"The clearly political intent to fix a final and irreversible end-date for German nuclear energy with such unprecedented haste gives me increasing worry, " Hans-Peter Keitel, head of Germany's BDI business lobby, wrote in an open letter to German business leaders Monday.

WSJ: Germany to Forsake Its Nuclear Reactors

In the week before Christmas some of south Florida's most prominent and powerful civic and business leaders wrote a public letter to him urging him to call off the cruise.

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"While the Chamber applauds extension of AMT relief, it strongly opposes raising taxes to fund relief from a tax that was never intended as a revenue raiser, " the business group's top lobbyist, Bruce Josten, said in a letter sent to member of the House of Representatives Wednesday, in reference to the bill that would temporarily curb the tax.

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An earlier version of this editorial mentioned incorrectly that the dean of the graduate business school had not signed the letter and speculated incorrectly about the dean's motives.

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