England's Joe Worsley could make the plane and Wales' Andy Powell, Ireland's Alan Quinlan, the Scottish pair of Alasdair Strokosch and Allister Hogg and England's Tom Rees can all have a case made for them.

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Alan Minsk practices patent law in the Seattle office Lane Powell.

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Washington's elite was represented by US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, defence secretary William Cohen and retired general Colin Powell.

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