Pakistan's ambassador to the United States was forced to resign, amid allegations that he was behind a memo pledging to eject senior soldiers close to the Taliban in Pakistan, in exchange for American help in preventing any potential coup.

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Early in her career as a manager at Deloitte, she was surprised when she received a memo announcing the promotion of several of her close colleagues.

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In his sentencing memo Goel stated that he considered Rajaratnam one of his few close friends and came to trust him implicitly in ways that he normally reserved for members of his own family.

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But the memo reminds staff that if it takes more than three minutes to close the call, the service fails one of its "key performance indicators".

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