If there was one part of the letter that caused some head-scratching, though, it was a passage toward the end, about customers and data.

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Thanks to the High Court and the cameras we now know how footballers talk to each other on the pitch - it consists largely of four letter words which occasionally have "-ing" or "-head" attached to them.

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However, when told of the decision, Burton was furious and, in a scathing six-page letter to Hathaway, criticized him for essentially being unfit for his job and driving former head coach Randy Edsall to Maryland.

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Former President Laszlo Solyom - who helped to draft the 1989 constitution and served as the head of the Hungarian Constitutional Court from 1990 to 1998 - said in an open letter to the press on the day of the vote that the only way to stop the changes becoming irrevocable would be for President Janos Ader to refuse to sign the constitutional amendments into law.

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"The clearly political intent to fix a final and irreversible end-date for German nuclear energy with such unprecedented haste gives me increasing worry, " Hans-Peter Keitel, head of Germany's BDI business lobby, wrote in an open letter to German business leaders Monday.

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It matters little who leaked a letter last week from the chancellor to Lord Turner, the head of the Pensions Commission that published its long-awaited findings on Wednesday.

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