Mr Russell said he only acted as a local candidate and that he made plain he would take no part in the final decision.

BBC: Ministerial statement: Proposed school closures

Everything is posted online, and for the most part is visual rather than plain boring text.

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The Americans, for their part, welcome all foreign support but have made it plain that they are willing to bomb Iraq with or without it.

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The bill would require a social networking Internet Web site to establish a process for new users to set their privacy settings as part of the registration process that explains privacy options in plain language, and to make privacy settings available in an easy-to-use format.

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For her part, Sotomayor spent recent weeks in a tiny, plain office in the Eisenhower Office Building next door to the West Wing of the White House to prepare for the confirmation hearing.

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Agriculture remains a bigger part of the mix here than in most provincial Bulgarian towns because Kazanlak, and its surrounding plain of the same name, is the centre of a major industry in rose oil extract, feeding the needs of perfumiers from around the world.

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This report is pure hearsay at this point, but if true would be a major admission on Palm's part that its plans to kickstart the ailing company nearly two years ago are failing (or have just plain failed).

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