He recently received via FedEx a toy rubber sandwich wrapped in red cellophane with a note saying he wouldn't have to brown bag his lunch the following week if he'd let the sender take him to a restaurant.

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In fact, Ned Davis Research was out with a note Thursday saying that some of the recent indicators suggest a GDP rate closer to 2.1%, which is a far cry from the current rate of 2.7%.

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Morgan Stanley is out with a note this morning saying it does not believe ARM will get sold.

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Heller filed a doctor's note with the court saying she was too ill to make the cross-country flight this week.

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The Foreign Office in London has sounded a similar note, with minister Lord Malloch Brown saying sanctions would not be lifted until Zimbabwe's transition to democracy has "reached a point of no return".

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Psystar's offer to build off-license OSx86 OpenMac clones was apparently pretty popular -- we saw a note from the company saying it was trying hard to cope with the rush of traffic, but it looks like things got overwhelming, and the site is now unavailable.

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The Philpotts wanted a bigger house, Mr Mosley allegedly told his friend, and Mrs Philpott apparently wrote a suicide note in which she took the blame for the fire, saying she would take the children with her next time.

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