And after years of paying no dividend, Chambers is making noises about a payout.
Assad has been making noises about reform and fighting corruption ever since he came to power in 2000.
The Treasury Department is making noises that its regular inflation-adjusted bonds may go the way of the dodo.
Regulators in this post-Madoff era have been making noises publicly about being more proactive in ferreting out wrongdoing.
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Now with other rivals, including Citigroup making noises about growing in securities servicing, JPMorgan is putting new energy into its business.
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Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve are making noises about raising interest rates.
The governor of the Bank of England, Sir Edward George, has already started making noises about the implication of such a fall.
Her fingers twitched on the computer keys, making noises like munching rodents.
Even Germany's postal-savings bank is making noises about becoming an Internet-finance leader.
He has been making noises, rarely heard in the days of the Delors commission, about the need to cut costs and raise productivity.
The onlookers may also be hampering them - some of the bystanders are acting as if it is a kind of party, making noises.
But then Henry's uncle heard Miss Charles praying and making noises.
You have been making noises about developing a stronger, sexier local ad model for some time and sooner or later we are going to stop believing one is coming.
The Time Warner buyback announcement was a dud (shares are where they were when Icahn started making noises), but that could be because Wall Street is bored with cable stocks.
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At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been making noises that the Bain report's 11% rise with strings, already rejected out of hand by the FBU, need not be the last word on the issue.
It is officially neutral about Mr Foster's anti-hunting bill, and is making friendly noises on other issues.
The government was making encouraging noises ahead of the mayor's visit - the first of a series being planned.
One wanted to be a firetruck and ran around making truck noises.
Neverthless he and his two sons found themselves in a tent, with a lion sleeping underneath them making bizarre noises that first night.
That is when the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore began backtracking on Myanmar, though some say they were making these noises to please their Western allies.
Worryingly, though, the Indian government is making soothing noises to these firms, as if the way to improve India's investment climate is to rescue foolish investors.
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Some, though, remain hopeful that Doha can see a "big-bang" moment, pointing to the fact that the new leadership in China and the re-elected President Obama are both making optimistic noises about climate.
Yet, bending to the chill American wind blowing out of Iraq and through its now-closed offices in Damascus, Hamas has been making conciliatory noises and intends to continue talks with Mr Abbas's government.
The baby's father, Richard Stanton, told the inquest that after Kate was born on 1 March 2009 he and his wife became concerned because the baby was cold and had begun making strange noises.
Germany's opposition Social Democrats are making similar noises.
The American giants have arrived with fat checkbooks and are making sympathetic noises about localizing content, while a number of strong Asian players with big backing are giving them a run for their money.
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Both Mr Brown and Mr Cameron hope that by making enthusiastic noises about constitutional reform they will win over the liberal chattering classes, who have never cared much for the Tories and have drifted away from Labour since 1997.
Instead of making periodic noises about raising interest rates to cool the economy (noises that will grow louder if the economic growth rate in the first quarter exceeds 4%), the Fed should let money charges fall to their natural level.
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