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Christian Noyer's claim yesterday that the UK didn't deserve its AAA rating caused particular disquiet in the corridors of power - with one UK Treasury official hissily telling the Financial Times that
The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2011
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Not only are we much less a country for it, politically we pay an extremely heavy price in lost opportunity, watch the Republicans hissily kick ass all day yesterday over condoms and the tragedy of that lost chance of political oblivion Republicans deserve becomes vividly clear, that's what happens when you don't put them away.
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A media-shy American philanthropist with opaque business interests, Mrs Unger gathers street children into what she hissily refuses to call her orphanage.
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A media-shy American philanthropist with opaque business interests, Mrs Unger gathers street children into what she hissily refuses to call her orphanage.
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