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"We have not been in touch with the attacker. So we don't know their specific demand," he told a news conference as the firm again delayed the release of financial results.

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A previous dress rehearsal highlighted the need for a new traffic light at a specific location to alleviate gridlock when military convoys move across the country.

Gripes ranged from the new colour scheme for the rain radar, to furious farmers and fishermen who could no longer put in GPS coordinates to find forecasts for a specific location.

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“I didn’t intend to mention any specifics,” Takaichi said, when a lawmaker asked her about the remarks that irked Beijing.

In several interviews released before “Pluribus” debuted, Gilligan repeats an insistence common to storytellers whose work happens to meet the prevailing sentiments of a specific moment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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