• Woods never liked that question, perhaps because he's never sure how far he's going.

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  • Perhaps because he is retiring this week, Admiral Mullen seems to have overstated things.

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  • Perhaps because he now senses that the Israeli public thinks his strong-arm tactics have failed.

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  • Perhaps because he has ignored some important social issues in his single-minded pursuit of euro membership.

    ECONOMIST: Greece

  • Perhaps because he feels insecure, Mr Milosevic may again be digging in his heels over Kosovo.

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  • Perhaps because he is not striving for position, he lacks the desperation of younger colleagues.

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  • Perhaps because he figures that cleaning up corporate behaviour will soon be where the action is.

    ECONOMIST: Italian securities

  • Yet, perhaps because he is so clearly ill at ease, he ends up undermining his own efforts.

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  • Perhaps because he understands Photofete, and what it says about Skilling' character, may steer deliberations in the jury room.

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  • His attempts to get inside the head of Number 23 are somewhat less successful, perhaps because he never spoke to Jordan personally.

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  • But that promise was never fulfilled, perhaps because he led a life that he knew would be condemned by coaches and players alike.

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  • Perhaps because he is poorer than almost everyone he knows, Mr Mount casts himself from an early age more as an observer than as a protagonist.

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  • The role of Epstein has tended to be minimised in the golden memory of the Beatles, perhaps because he was thought to be too fond of young men.

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  • Secretary Gates does not appear to fully grasp this fact, perhaps because he has spent his entire tenure at the Pentagon fighting an enemy that has no air force.

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  • He pointed out a line in the book that has been crossed out by Jefferson, perhaps because he considered it problematic as it did not appear in earlier versions.

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  • Come the Bush administration, Swindle "was not invited to stay, " he recalls with a chuckle - perhaps because he favored Rep. Jack Kemp as Reagan's VP over George Bush.

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  • Mr Marchionne is in no hurry to have an IPO, however, perhaps because he would then have to pay the full market price for the stock he will need to gain full control.

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  • But Mr Dewar seems unworried by such problems, perhaps because he is more interested in the fact that these land reform laws will not be passed by the government, but by the new Scottish parliament.

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  • Perhaps because he would rather be out on the water than in a superfluous meeting, he has delegated more responsibility, and established clearer chains of command throughout Serono than did his father, who took a more paternalistic approach.

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  • Stirling soon saw the unreality of these schemes, perhaps because he grew up in Liverpool where a lot of reality was on view and he was never a member of the architectural elite for whom prefabrication was one of modernism's most cherished illusions.

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  • But he beat his more famous left-of-centre rival, perhaps because he was low profile - unlike his flamboyant predecessor, Ezer Weizman, who was forced to resign after a financial scandal - and because of his perceived commitment to depoliticise the presidency, analysts at the time said.

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  • Perhaps because he was the son of a President, or because he just has a good nez for when to turn the ship, he changed Club Med from a mid-priced, mid-market vacation experience that mainly targeted singles to a more exclusive, higher-end, customizable, experience for families.

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  • If Levy has hardly been known on Madison Avenue, it is perhaps because he played second banana to the agency's flamboyant founder, the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. (The company name comes from publicit, which means "advertising, " and six, for 1926, the year it was founded.) Lvy burst onto the public scene as he assumed more control of the agency group.

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  • If Levy has hardly been known on Madison Avenue, it is perhaps because he played second banana to the agency's flamboyant founder, the late Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet. (The company name comes from publicit, which means "advertising, " and six, for 1926, the year the company was founded.) Levy burst onto the public scene as he assumed more control of the agency group.

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  • Mr Teodoro resigned as chairman of the party late last month, ostensibly because he wants to concentrate on his campaign, though in reality, perhaps, because he, too, wants to distance himself from Mrs Arroyo.

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  • The dogs saw him first, sensed him, perhaps, because he lay partially obscured in the shadow of a tree.

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  • In part, perhaps, because he will not want to throw a lifeline to Ed Miliband by making a humiliating U-turn.

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  • Partly for his own safety, and partly, perhaps, because he loved managing everything in his life, he kept his identity secret from his Russian handlers.

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  • Yukos's boss, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was also thrown into jail, perhaps partly because he planned to build a private oil pipeline to China (he also meddled in internal Russian politics).

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  • He earns it because of his shiny novelty and flair, and, perhaps especially, because he is an avatar of the Chinese ascendance.

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