In September -- when Sarkozy was still president -- three investigators engaged in an hourlong search of his political party headquarters, seeking documents linking his campaign to the alleged political contributions from Bettencourt.

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In September -- when Sarkozy was still president -- three investigators engaged in an hourlong search of his political party headquarters, seeking documents linking Sarkozy's campaign to the alleged political contributions from Bettencourt.

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The NUT's campaign against the linking of pay to performance comes as a headteachers' union has called for a slowing down of the pace of reform.

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And then they started a campaign to lobby for unauthorised linking to be outlawed.

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Nonetheless, the McCain campaign released an ad Friday linking Obama to former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines.

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McDonnell's campaign appears to be trying to nationalize the contest by linking Deeds to the Democrats who control the White House and Congress.

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Microsoft took when it launched a Twitter campaign shortly after the devastating natural disasters in Japan earlier this year by linking the aid it was donating to Japan to the number of retweets the Bing brand would get.

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