The independent three-man panel consisted of a former referee, a former manager and a former player.

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As well as an independent chairman, the report calls for independent directors to form part of a 12-man voting board: The chairman, four directors representing the full members, two representing the associate members, two independent directors from inside the game and three independent directors from outside the game.

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has cleared two Dorset officers over the death of a man in a police pursuit.

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While Hitch was a man of the left, he was one of the very last of the independent left.

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Well enough indeed for Joel Klein, head of the antitrust division and the man responsible for bringing Microsoft to court, to have assembled a group of independent antitrust experts to start considering possible remedies.

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The most disappointed man in Dublin after the votes were counted was independent candidate Sean Gallagher, a former star of the Irish version of the TV show Dragon's Den.

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The 1955 exhibition "Man, Machine and Motion, " organized by Richard Hamilton, a member of Britain's Independent Group, is both dark and exuberant.

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The studio had held the rights to "Iron Man 3" and "Avengers" as part of a deal with Marvel when it was an independent company.

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The deal eliminated a major independent hedge fund firm, GLG, whose three top bosses, including Roman, received hundreds of millions of dollars of Man Groups stock, which they agreed not to sell for at least two years.

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