Officials say the Ortiz agreement is related to the September 30 17-count indictment of Democratic fund-raiser Mark Jimenez, FTI's chief executive officer and Ortiz's boss.

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Hourly firework displays will mark the count down to 2013 as part of Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations.

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Mark Dobson, of Brayfield Terrace, London, is charged with one count of conspiracy to corrupt.

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There was sort of an informal count about which senators have agreed to do reconciliation, with the 50th being Mark Begich, over the weekend.

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This article is by Mark Ryski, author of Conversion: The Last Great Retail Metric and When Retail Customers Count and chief executive and founder of HeadCount Corporation.

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