Iain Duncan Smith said with a smile, to laughter from the press pack.

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This was, the press pack were told last week, a reshuffle designed to show that this government "means business".

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She is something of a social chameleon, able to move between easily different groups with ease, including the press pack.

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"This company needed this desperately, " Peltz later told the press pack.

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Certainly, though, he often travelled free of the press pack, partly because his expense account was much smaller than his colleagues', partly (as he must have noticed, but does not here remark) because other journalists and presumably many officials assumed, perhaps wrongly, that he was a spy.

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Back at the press base, where the 60-strong media pack have to suffer saunas, open-air natural hot springs, and an underground disco, the antics of the tiny but dedicated British contingent are gradually endearing themselves to the Italian media.

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