The reason for the disallowance was that there was no written contemporaneous acknowledgment.

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This is an acknowledgment that no grand bargain is likely to come about on the Europeans' calendar.

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Without acknowledgment of risk, there is no respect for businessmen and words like profitable turn negative.

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No, I mean, look, I think there was an acknowledgment, honestly, Mark, by everybody that an election had come and gone, and that after elections there is a time in which both parties are responsible for governing the country.

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We have yet to see even an acknowledgment from Republican leaders of the fundamental fact that there is no deal that does not include rates going up on top earners.

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That would be an acknowledgment from the done organization that there was a contribution and a statement that there was either no quid pro quo or its value if there was one.

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