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Police evacuated 273 people from the jet, and briefly detained a Canadian man, after an anonymous caller in Canada tipped-off authorities that the suspect was carrying explosives.

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We have just been tipped-off by the Pride Press Officer that this year the organisers want to bring more colour to their event.

Andy Thayer: How Russian Gay Activists Outwitted the Secret Police 2010

Now, the police have been following them ever since their arrival in Pakistan because they were originally tipped-off by the FBI.

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We have just been tipped-off by the Pride Press Officer that this year the organisers want to bring more colour to their event.

Andy Thayer: How Russian Gay Activists Outwitted the Secret Police 2010

It's inconceivable that the BBC producer concerned did not gather all this in ordinary conversation with Dr. Gilbert and of course we viewers should have been, well not exactly 'tipped-off', but at least made aware of his extremely partisan position so that we could judge for ourselves what credence to give him.

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Off-topic story: Last month, I was tipped-off that Apple, my other favourite company, would finally be opening a store in my city, Mississauga, Ontario* Pop. 701,000, at Square One Shopping Centre, arguably the world's greatest mall.

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No one knows for sure, but the degree of Russian preparedness before the counter-attack suggests that they had been tipped-off by people close to Saakashvili.

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The media gathered there as the 'swami' earlier phoned a TV journalist and told her that he was going to shoot himself at his residence following which police were tipped-off.

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The Election Commission was tipped-off by the Police that large amount of black ink has been smuggled into the country.

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It offered some advantages, though -- doctors could go out to dinner in a fancy restaurant and be called off to work just after ordering (every medical drama made in the 1990s) and, on the other side, patients awaiting transplants could be tipped-off the moment the organs were in stock.

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