Robert Gulliver, the NFL's executive vice president of human resources, said that the hiring results were "disappointing" and that he expects to make revisions in the rule.

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Downing Street clearly hopes that someone, anyone, will make common cause with the British prime minister in his argument that European treaty revisions, that may be required to buttress the eurozone, offer an opportunity to re-visit some of the concessions of powers to Brussels.

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However, it is unclear whether he will have had enough time in his new post to make such changes to Apple's next iOS and Mac OS X system revisions which are expected later this year.

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