In a letter to the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (Mopac), the monitoring officer for the Greater London Authority, Ed Williams, said the female staff member said she considered "the core elements" of what had been reported in the media to be "true" and "there was contact".

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Matt Williams, a partner at the Martin Agency, says a downturn is a natural time to focus on core strategy.

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Exploding usage of the Internet in the early 1990s drove the expansion of the network core, giving rise to the long-haul backbones of newcomers like WorldCom, Qwest, Williams Cos. and Level 3.

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