Only Jaguar, Arrows and Minardi have vacancies - and Jaguar are considered certain to sign Mark Webber in place of Eddie Irvine alongside Pedro de la Rosa, as exclusively revealed by the BBC.

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There is no sign to mark it, just a sprawl of heavy, dark, tropical hardwood left to dry and age in the sun and a couple of half-finished canoes in front of the open-air shed where he does his work.

BBC: A tale of the South Pacific

For skeptics such as Intrepid Capital Management President Mark Travis, slimmer discounts are another sign the market is getting frothy.

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That sign, a replica of an Irish road sign, was given to me by a colleague, Mark Wynne, who took my place in a forthcoming speaking assignment in Ireland when I retired from the Dallas Fed in November 2004.

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Fulham, now managed by Bellamy's hero Mark Hughes, have admitted they want to sign him, Celtic boss Neil Lennon says his club have spoken to Bellamy's agent while City's Champions League qualifying rivals Tottenham Hotspur also want the 59-times capped Welshman.

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Mr. ALEX ROPSON: We made a sign that says New Hampshire, and he got a check mark there.

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The monarch will sign the 16-point document at an event in London to mark Commonwealth Day.

BBC: Queen to sign equal rights charter

Mark, an Irish-born economist, had the sign made for me.

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"I think this us a sign of underlying structural issues which you have seen in South Africa for a long time, " said Mark Rosenberg, an Africa analyst with the risk research firm Eurasia Group.

CNN: South Africa shocked by police shootings at mine

But it is too early to tell if this really is a sign that Mr Abbas is persuading the militants to hold fire, or whether it was simply a brief lull to mark this week's Muslim festival of Eid.

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