For all her manners, she can be as persistent as the best of them: she lobbied America's National Football League for a decade before it at last agreed to stage the Superbowl in the cold wastes of Minnesota.

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He took to the international stage with the same nerveless and cold-eyed composure that has marked his performances at Everton this season.

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In the future, Medicare officials cold starting joining discussions between the FDA and companies how to plan final-stage trials to demonstrate cost effectiveness as well as efficacy.

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Robin Cook has gone from being a cold war Soviet apologist, to an even more ridiculous figure, strutting his stuff on the international stage, without reticence, subtlety or tact.

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