At the outcome of the disciplinary hearing, the Independent Police Complaints Commission commissioner Nicholas Long said Mr Price had "failed the public of Cleveland".

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Gone are long-time Hess family cronies like Nicholas Brady and Tom Kean and seven other incumbents who had precious little oil-and-gas experience.

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Nicholas Garland showed its members as an Endangered Species, bereft in long grass like hunted animals poised on extinction.

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Earlier this year, President Obama promised his French counterpart, Nicholas Sarkozy, that EADS would be allowed to compete for the long-overdue replacement of U.S. aerial refueling aircraft initially bought during the Eisenhower administration.

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Like Czar Nicholas II, the mechanical peacock came at the decadent end of a long and rich tradition.

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But long before Ms Feinstein considers Pushkin's downfall amid the hostile, treacherous and sexually licentious members of Nicholas I's court, she draws a sympathetic, if not always approving, portrait of Pushkin's contradictory and flawed genius.

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