Tory veteran Ann Widdecombe said the next Speaker had to be "known" to voters and said she had the "vulgar attributes" to help Parliament re-connect with the public.

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Senior Jon Steed, public information officer for the Texas Aggie Democrats, describes the campus as mostly apathetic but attributes students' politics to their backgrounds.

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As a result, public companies are generally valued two times higher, sometimes more, than a private company with similar financial attributes.

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The media and public both place inappropriate emphasis on fashion choices, personal lives and find emotional verbiage to describe their many attributes.

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Other bad news: The Davie Brown Index, a compilation of public surveys of celebrity perceptions assembled by marketing agency The Marketing Arm, rates A-Rod very low on attributes like trust and aspiration, even as he scores high on the awareness scale.

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But Gatland says that Henson's public persona is at odds with the hard-training player he knows and says that Wales are still missing the attributes - particularly in defence - that Henson brought to the side.

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