As the ICG study concludes, failure would mean more talk of formal partition.

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And there's been some talk of not having a formal conference committee on Capitol Hill, to just sort of do this informally, probably behind closed doors.

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So a writer should not be afraid to have characters talk in a way that's more formal or correct than is common in real life.

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Krishna, talked in January of lodging a formal complaint over a quip by Jay Leno, an American talk-show host, who said the Sikhs' revered Golden Temple in Amritsar was in fact Mitt Romney's holiday home.

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However on Sunday it revealed it had received a formal approach from the WICB - and that Gibson had also asked to talk to his potential new employers.

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Although it is impossible to schedule a formal meeting with every voter in my district, I'm excited about new technology that allows me to talk to hundreds and potentially thousands of people at a time.

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