The Facebook ad system is largely self-serve and provides real-time feedback on the size of the target audience and the suggested bid range to achieve impressions.

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In your article Michael Levine suggested that airlines could bid for the right to be prioritised when airports reach full capacity.

ECONOMIST: Letters

But in a conference call Tuesday morning, Redstone suggested that the fact that investors hadn't bid up the company's stock on the news suggested they didn't support Freston.

FORBES: Why Fire Freston?

Warner suggested that the Spurs and AEG bid would look to offer something to athletics by either adding a "small" amount of seating to the warm-up track or upgrading an existing facility elsewhere, both options he described as "very inferior".

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Some media reports even suggested that Ganguly had supported Chappell's bid to become coach, which ended successfully in May.

BBC: Chappell (AFP/Getty) and Ganguly (AP)

The new Cardiff City Stadium, Llanelli's Parc y Scarlets and the Liberty Stadium are suggested venues in the Welsh FA's bid document and Newport's Spytty Park could be used if it be upgraded to meet the tournament criteria.

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One U.S. senator suggested earlier this year that Iran may be holding Levinson in a bid to exchange him for Iranian officials seized by U.S. troops in Iraq in 2007.

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The idea of moving the responsibility of the BSkyB bid from Business Secretary Vince Cable to Mr Hunt was suggested by Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood, Mr Cameron said, following a series of meetings with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Downing Street staff.

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"City have to get the money back for him, " insisted Rosler, who recently suggested losing Tevez could have a "disastrous effect" on City's bid to become a major force in European football.

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He had five meetings with Mr Mittal's companies and suggested to his bosses at the Foreign Office that Mr Blair should support this British bid.

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Emails released at the inquiry suggested Mr Salmond was prepared to lobby the UK culture secretary for Mr Murdoch's bid to take full control of BSkyB, something which Mr Salmond has strongly denied.

BBC: Salmond defends Murdoch meetings

Then, last week, in an apparent bid to dampen speculation that their security measures were over the top, government officials reportedly suggested that Mr bin Laden himself could be behind the new-found threat.

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