There has been some suggestion that the tax-increase proposal is a Boehner ploy: Put the increase on the table and when the president rejects it Boehner can say he made concessions but the president refused them.

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Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat criticised the suggestion that the wording of the Jordanian-Egyptian proposal be altered.

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Back in November 2007, the FAI accepted a FIFA proposal that the rule should work both ways, but the IFA rejected the suggestion.

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The minimum pricing proposal for alcohol is an example of this, as is the plain packaging suggestion for cigarettes which has already been put forward by ministers.

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