Such incidents are distracting, as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg pointed out in a press conference Tuesday.

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As fellow Forbes.com contributor and noted attorney Michael Bobelian has recently pointed out , few class actions ever go to trial.

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New York's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a liberal Republican, pointed out last week at a Senate town-hall hearing in Philadelphia that the Big Apple's economy would collapse without the half-million or so undocumented people among the city's 3m immigrants.

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Michael Yeager, CEO of BHP Billiton Petroleum pointed out at the conference.

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East Belfast Ulster Unionist MLA Michael Copeland started the ball rolling when he pointed out the reference to the London bombings in the welfare reform regulations.

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Ironically, as pointed out by the erudite and often acerbic Japan watcher Michael Cucek (producer of the splendid Shisaku blog), this was essentially an election about nothing.

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