"We really needed her to speak not only from her point of view as to what they were going through at the time, but to speak for John as well, " said the film's other director, John Scheinfeld.

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Another staff member, contacted later and also not authorised to speak to the media, said the IPK did not have any confirmed cases of cholera at this point.

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Hassan did not speak on the company's conference call, and he did not point to any promising candidates in its drug pipeline in the press release.

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The Department of Energy would instruct me not to speak specifically about those prices, and I would point you over to them.

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