But as it turned out, the German government was just as unrelaxed about allowing EADS - owner of Airbus and therefore a strategically important manufacturer - to run itself in an arms-length and commercial way.
As I walked around the restaurant at Australia's plush hotel in west London to meet the players during breakfast, Darren Lockyer popped out for an early-morning run around the block in his full-length lycras before re-emerging with a newspaper.
And the average length of school-run journey was rising, the MPs reported.
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Food foraging in Wales is big business, and a number of bush explorer and plant-lore identification courses now run the length and breadth of the country.
Parsons Legacy (8-1) was a length and a quarter away in third, with last year's winner Run For Paddy (12-1) fourth.
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Shane Watson, a notably poor runner, suffered a breakdown in communication with Phillip Hughes and Kevin Pietersen's sharp pick-up and return to Prior had him run out by the length of the pitch.
Some commitments (my pay check) were of a short-term nature, others (pension accrual) run over the whole length of my employment.
Each marathon course was approximately twenty-five miles, believed to be the length of the route from Marathon to Athens run by Pheidippides in 490 B.
But when Lincoln very recently decided instead to run two 30-second commercials, shortening the Fallon-inspired effort to just half of its original length and devoting the other 30 seconds to an ad focusing on the new MKZ sedan, Smith got left on the cutting room floor for the ad that will actually run during the Super Bowl.
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It was a black box, run by a tiny team at a very long arm's length from the group's much bigger broker-dealer.
Chicken Run featured the voices of Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha and was the first full-length film to be made by Bristol-based Aardman Animations - best known for its Wallace and Gromit films - with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company.
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