One or more Republican lawmakers will appear to publicly waver on their commitment to the pledge. (Norquist points to Chambliss, Graham and King as repeat offenders.) That open questioning is often followed just as predictably by a private call to Norquist -- who says Chambliss has called to apologize -- and more often than not, some kind of public mea culpa.
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Would everyone in a New York hot spot go quiet for five minutes in order to listen politely to what is, in essence, a private distress call?
Both also highlight the critical role of the private sector, and call for accountable leadership, transparency, effective partnerships and leveraging private-sector resources and tangible outcomes.
On the Greece front, there is a growing call for private bond holders to share the burden of a second bailout.
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Chicago just put out the call for private companies to bring new ideas, to collaborate in building the most well connected city in the world.
And on the whole, on the whole I would tend to agree with that, but it does seem to me, I would want to enter a caveat, I don't think it's altogether quite so easy to have clear blue water between what you might call the private and the public.
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It may seem contrarian to call for more private-sector involvement in public education.
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For buy to let investors (or private landlords as we might call them) are likely to be the people with the finances to be able to make a substantial deposit.
It will call upon the private sector in the United States and throughout the region to contribute to the economic well-being and the economic competitiveness of the region by participating in this 100, 000 strong in the Americas.
Why continue hustling for commissions selling penny stocks when for the price of having a lawyer draft a believable private placement memorandum, you can call yourself a hedge fund manager?
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There are over 100 Orion campuses across India, and the private courses are popular among prospective call center applicants in India as a resume booster to give them a competitive edge in the hiring process.
Balance triumphed in the sense that before those regimes fell, in the West, while they were utterly out of balance on the side of the public sector everything was government, we were fairly balanced between the government, the private sector, and what I call the plural sector.
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Other analysts are known to have published reports praising companies to the skies, and then tell fund managers who ring up for more information to call back on a private mobile number - so the analysts can tell the fund manager (on a phone line that is not being tape recorded) to ignore the report and avoid the stock like plague.
They were private-sector types who answered the call to public service.
The FSA noted that if any relevant conversation (from voice, SMS to IM) be received or commenced on private communication equipment, they would expect the call to be terminated immediately and the conversation diverted to a recorded business line.
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Oddly, for a private client business, the bank is setting up call centres in Maastricht and Edinburgh.
This one reform would put private coverage within reach for millions, and I call on the Congress to pass it this year.
You pick up your satellite phone, call your credit card company and order a private jet to come rescue you.
In Saudi Arabia, where less than 10% of the private-sector workforce is Saudi, King Fahd's call has been largely ignored.
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He asked Treasury Secretary Paulson to call the Russian authorities to let him fly his private jet over their airspace to return to the US and face the expanding crisis.
The Treasury was quick to call for further wage restraint in both the public and private sector.
Hollywood can be a place where people who call themselves environmental advocates fly in for Earth Day on private planes from Aspen.
In a conference call, Van den Bergh wouldn't say if private investors had been approached, and denied he was trying to keep the company from being taken over itself.
The purpose of the call was to instruct me, the director of a private company with little experience in the ways of Washington, on exactly how one boards the gravy train.
It is in this spirit that I call today on governments, civil society, public and private actors, well beyond scientific circles, to mobilize so as to release the full potential of all sciences for development and peace, which are inseparable and essential for the future that we want.
A.M. at the private clinic on Reines Street, Nava had changed her mind and asked to call it off.
His proposals, which are making their way through five congressional committees in the House and Senate, also call for a government-run health insurance program to compete with private insurers.
At the same time, Obama defended his call for a government-funded public health insurance option to compete against private insurers.
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While it's not fair to call Obama a socialist, it is fair to suggest he believes in private enterprise that is subordinate to government.
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