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In the midst of all this the president sacked the defence minister after he insulted some of her closest aides in an interview.

U. S. officials said Western allies of the U. S. are trying to step up pressure on aides close to Col. Gadhafi to force him from power.

State television showed Berlusconi with blood on his lips as he was lifted to his feet by aides.

Mr. Sarkozy's aides scrambled later to say he had been referring to arrests among the broader Islamic movement, not the London bombers.

But he and his aides have encouraged the speculation for over a year, which has raised Mr Bloomberg's national profile.

White House aides note that the January report came well before the depth of the economic crisis came into focus.

Aides added that Tuesday the president will get a briefing on financial-market conditions from members of a White House working group.

Gates doesn't travel much on the Beltway's social circuit, instead spending off-hours with his wife and a small cadre of aides.

Later, presidential aides and officials at the Unification Ministry said South Korea isn't ready to rejoin the six-party talks immediately.

Before the meeting, one of her aides cautioned: "Ms. Dong mostly likes to talk about air-conditioning. "

Royal aides said he was invited to support the British Lions by the team's coach, Clive Woodward.

This account of the meeting is based on interviews with participants, White House aides and others familiar with the gathering.

But according to one of his close aides, the 74-year-old anti-corruption campaigner is refusing to leave and has gone on hunger strike.

Mr. Boehner's aides said the speaker was not a fan of such formal dinners and would meet separately with Mr. Hu on Thursday.

Some of the Palestinian leader's aides, however, insisted that this time he would go.

Aides close to the president said the amended provided many safeguards for women.

Guan Yan burst into tears. "Aides are easy to acquire but hard to put into service, " he sighed.

However, the intensification appears to be directed towards the leaders' respective aides who will have two half-day meetings a week.

Krishna's aides said the reaction of the outside world is too harsh, because this error is not intentional, "can occur in any person. "

Music to the ears of White House aides trying to hammer the message that Republicans now have a responsibility to govern.

Before the Thursday-afternoon White House gathering, Bush aides were trying to rally support in anticipation of a close series of votes.

NARRATOR: His aides told him to concentrate on the price of eggs. If eggs appeared, if eggs got cheaper, the market would be working.

The relation of the various Nixon aides to one another was like that of prisoners in adjoining cells.

Clinton's aides assumed that he would not be willing to supply more than the $700 million in the next year's budget.

Aides say that the president decided to get out in front of any public anger.

One of his aides casually asked me if I might be interested.

Two of his key aides and others have been detained without charge in the case, and his wife is also a suspect.

Then one of his aides pulled him aside and explained that it was just springtime.

Aides said the president would attend as a sports fan, and not to make any political statement.

Unlike many White House aides, he was not trying to advance his own career.

Long before the Massachusetts vote Mr Obama's aides worried that the president was on the wrong side of the bank- reform debate.

Aides said the FSA would have to finish its investigation first and that it was premature to say whether a public inquiry would be held.

Mr Obama's aides fret that Ms Merkel sometimes prefers the company of China and Russia over that of the US in the UN Security Council.

With so much at stake, Sino-U. S. relations have never been closer or more important, White House aides say.

The President, Alejos, and the aides frantically tried to come up with a statement. Finally, they hashed out a few words.

They were not in their offices, and aides said they did not know where any of them had gone.

Sarkozy told his aides that Cecilia was "the only non-negotiable part" of his career.

South Korea's president, Lee Myung-bak, was worried enough to call an emergency meeting with senior aides.

Even so, Lula looks stronger politically than looked possible a year ago, when scandal was mowing down his closest aides and his popularity.

White House aides said a pair of trips next week will be followed by a stream of public and private lobbying.

But Ads said aides say they detect a bit of wistfulness in his voice.

One of Mr Lee's prospective ministers and several presidential aides have had to resign after questions were raised over their ethics.

Obama and his aides seem to understand this.

But aides say they detect a bit of wistfulness in his voice.

Aides said the president was seeking respite after a punishing few months in Washington's political swamp.

Aides to the president say Mr. Bush has protected more of the marine environment than any of his predecessors.

Aides say he never did come to terms with the increased exposure of his new role.

However, on the advice of his political aides, Eisenhower deleted the Marshall tribute from his speech.

Soon he would charge, without a shred of evidence, that 25 percent of my White House aides were recent drug users.

But it is aides say they detect a little wistfulness bit of wistfulness in his voice.

Even without oaths, Bush aides would be legally required to tell the truth to Congress.

'I'm morphing into a German Sarkozy, ' she said, according to aides who were present.

In a hospital the nursing staff is usually quite large . There are professional nurses, practical nurses , nurse's aides, and orderlies.

Yet he did not call the police for help, relying instead on two discreet aides.

Approval by the congress is a legal formality, with all important decisions worked out in advance by ministers and their aides.

Mr. Gates and his aides had debated just how blunt he ought to be in his address, which opened the Saturday session.

The president and his aides describe their plan as a reasonable initiative that should be acceptable to opposition Republicans.

The president-elect's aides are beginning to tune down expectations of change.

But aides close to her have not ruled it out.

"Arguing with press aides and senior officials" might as well be part of the job description for White House correspondents.

More than a year before the elections in March, Sadr and his top aides set up an election strategy committee they dubbed the "machine. "

The prime minister was not slow to draw conclusions, reportedly telling aides that in Lazio he had wrought a "sort of miracle" .

In France, aides to President Nicolas Sarkozy point to the rising cost of food and fuel as the key to his slump in the polls.

The Russian official said he was sending aides to Benghazi to forge contacts with the opposition.

And she refused to listen to even her closest aides - rebelling against what she saw as her mother's controlling behaviour.

Mr. Ozawa denies any wrongdoing in a scandal that has already resulted in the arrest of two of his political aides.

The various Assistants to the President are personal aides and assist the President in such matters as he may direct.

By Wednesday, congressional sources were widely confirming he had been offered the job, but Emanuel aides said he hadn't accepted it.

The general and his aides spoke disrespectfully about several administration officials.

At a meeting with economic aides Tuesday, Mr. Medvedev said the government needs to work more to stimulate investment .

He was with his wife, two aides, a film crew and two lawyers, but as gregarious and mischievous as ever.

Much of the rest will be getting off the ground shortly, White House aides say.

There has been a willingness; I gather that Karzai's brother met with either Mullah [Mohammed] Omar or his close aides in Saudi Arabia.

In the run-up to her murder, Estemirova received threats from senior aides of Kadyrov.

Moreno-Ocampo is investigating Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, some of his sons and aides over a "pre-determined plan" to attack protesters.

White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the president.

was the quip Vatican aides say he scrawled on a piece of paper after he woke up following surgery to ease his breathing problems.

Aides say that Obama would have no public events during the trip, although he has received his intelligence briefings and met with aides.

And the DOJ could be less likely to block contempt charges against former White House aides who have refused to testify before Congress.

Mrs. Obama and her family declined to comment for this article, aides said, in part because of the personal nature of the subject.

White House aides say only that when the president returns to work he will be "very active" .

Inside the White House, aides seemed to sense that in the last week, a threshold was crossed.

Lake made sure he and his aides stayed out of any photo op.

Toward the end of his speech, Mr. Obama did what aides had suggested he would.

Introductory exercises and in-game aides like "peekaboo, " which compares top-scoring solutions with yours, help novices get up to speed.

Guinea's military leader has been fired on by one of his aides in the capital, Conakry, a government spokesman says.

Around headquarters the two aides were on call constantly, but for jeep traveling with the general they tool alternate days.

"Political Weekly, " 25 said it is clear that beyond McCain's aides expected the matter in the camp caused by internal rifts .

Mr Dimon's aides bristle at such statements, mindful that when Wall Street crowns a new emperor it also sets him up for a downfall.

Mr. Jordan and other House Republicans declined to be interviewed, saying through aides that it was time to mourn, not to debate policy.

"White House aides" have told the Washington Post that this is being considered.

The president's aides and his own right-wing Grand National Party confess they are worried about rising public discontent.

Despite years of food shortages, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has long showered his aides with luxury items to win their loyalty.

At another point, she suddenly rose and started playing billiards with two aides, squealing with delight when she did well.

But his aides have said that unless a diplomatic truce can be achieved with China, it would be difficult to discontinue money diplomacy.

Staffers who work directly for Senate committees are the only aides prohibited from having such ties.

Rank and file lawmakers have come under increasing pressure at home to address the shaky economy, said several Democratic leadership aides.

The president of the United States practices his press conferences and major addresses in front of an audience of aides and other staffers.

Obama began the interview without the clutch of aides we might have expected.

Abdullah al-Senussi, the hated intelligence chief and the last of the top Qaddafi aides still at large, was detained days later.

When Mr. Obama visited Mexico City in April, one of his aides became sick and returned home.

The meeting was at Bellarmine 's residence, but there were present some unnamed rather shadowy Dominican aides.

In a conference call with reporters on May 7th, Mrs Clinton's aides said they were happy with her win in Indiana.

President Lyndon B. Johnson was widely quoted as having told aides, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America. "

His wife, son, daughter-in-law and several former aides have also been jailed.

Hess was one of Hitler's closest aides.

His recourse to the broad and often tragic sweep of Jewish history won proud approval from his new team of aides.

There is no protection for political aides , who are just as likely as public servants to witness evidence of wrongdoing.

It is an insult to tell struggling health aides and store clerks to supplement their income by investing in stocks.

The Dalai Lama's aides say that at the time the Tibetan leader didn't have a good grasp of the resistance, or of how the CIA was involved.

Aides warn you not to stray, lest you tempt the snipers positioned in the shadows around the compound.

Aides to Annan have said he will travel to Israel later in the day before heading to Syria and Iran later in the week.

Also slated to come were White House aides Henry Kissinger and H. R. Haldeman, and Ron Ziegler, the press secretary.

At the White House, Mr. Obama and his top aides monitored the unfolding action in real time from the Situation Room.

Of all of the Supreme Chancellor's aides, Moore is said to be the closest, and privy to the Chancellor's deepest secrets.

Mr Roh may have accepted at least $6m and numerous gifts through family members and former aides.

Aides try to include time in his schedule for morning workouts in the White House gym and weekend rounds of golf.

Surrounded by aides who cater to his every whim, he reportedly lives on church-owned property, formerly a resort, in Southern California.

In the palace, the First Lady was nicknamed "the bulldozer, " for the way that she flattened aides and even the President.

Aides say they do not need to feel guilty about leaving their desk to work out.

Indeed, Mr Karzai's most important aides seem to favour conditions that will allow fraud to blossom further.

Congressional aides say bills will shortly be introduced that could require the U. S. military to stockpile rare earths.

Though two of Delay's aides have pleaded guilty, the former majority leader maintains his innocence and has not been charged.

In Bush's airborne office, aides milled about while Bush spoke on the phone. "That's what we're paid for, boys, " he said.

His wife, three sons and former aides were at his side.

These reports said that the name Mohammed - Ismail, Special Envoy is Gaddafi's son Saif - Islam's senior aides.

White House aides confirmed this week that Carol Browner, who has overseen climate and energy issues, will be departing.

Aides to Obama say they would like to see her on the Sunday shows more often.

Curran's aides originally consisted of three lawyers and an accountant, who focused mainly on the books of the Carter warehouse in Plains.

In almost every conversation Nixon asked me in his elliptical manner whether his two closest aides should resign.

Yet top aides say they believe Mr. Huntsman is returning home to challenge his boss for the White House.

One of Mr. Hazare's top aides said he will be hospitalized for two to three days to recover.

As president, Obama and his aides would just as soon not discuss race.

A high-profile probe would hobble the White House politically, and could mean sky-high legal bills and turmoil for Bush's closest aides.

She didn't accept preparation for that interview, and the aides say that that was part of the problem. . .

Mr Venizelos dropped out of sight as the crisis erupted. He was taken to hospital complaining of stomach pains, according to aides.

In the White House there is a well-established system of military aides and special phone lines standing by, ready for an emergency.

Democratic aides say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will put a proposed relief measure for the auto industry on the fast track .

By the look of their clothes, Obi-Wan guessed they were outsiders, most likely aides to the rulers of the four planets.

He has instead concentrated on better administration, quietly promoting his own aides to key positions in the state bureaucracy.

Aides said Obama is expected to make his case for a stimulus this week in a major speech.

But, after letting off one of Mr Karzai's top aides who was caught red-handed soliciting a bribe, he inspires little confidence.

Democrats' response was swift and firm: They said they would start authorizing subpoenas as soon as Wednesday for the White House aides.

The president faces a slate of challenges that even his top aides say they were not prepared for on Inauguration Day.

His aides said the flight would land early Friday afternoon (2 pm EDT).

Aides say Mr. Obama didn't support reinstatement but wanted to hear the merits of the idea.

Aides to President-elect Barack Obama have been negotiating with Congress on a two-year recovery plan for the world's largest economy.

And we're calling for professionals, nurses, nurse's aides, EMT's, others to sign up to volunteer there services.

By 5: 30 a. m. he was at a Tepco conference room, shouting at the company's executives, according to the aides.

Aides stress this interview is to explain what he has been up to since last June 27, not Gordon.

U. S. and European sanctions -- some directed at Assad and his top aides -- could make things worse for the cash-strapped country.

I asked two of his top aides to tell him he couldn't use the slides, but they each said they couldn't do it, that I had to.

President Traian Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days, supposedly to ward off evil.

His aides promote the (almost certainly doomed) idea of a global league of democracies.

About 300 members of the White House staff, including Mr. Obama's top aides, were gathered on either side of the South Lawn.

The package appears to dodge a thorny issue: The aides say the F-16 fighter jets that Taiwan covets are not likely to be included.

The President met with senior White House aides.

"He's no hometown folk, " he told aides as they shifted in a reception line. "He should clearly realize he is an American. "

Mr. Kennedy was at a party with several women who had been aides to Robert.

The investigation had already ensnared Ney's former chief of staff and two aides to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

That night, back at the White House, he stood with his aides at the door of the solarium up on the third floor, slapping out high fives.

The president and first lady jetted to a date in New York, aides and media in tow.

Their excitement almost overcame the fatigue of White House aides after a jet-lagged week in Asia.

This enemy has aides-de-camp in the form of the squares and oppositions , but his headquarters is the 12th house .

Mr. Obama's aides say the president, known for his discipline, doesn't take mulligans and adheres to every rule on the course.

Collecting the tax is not necessarily the intent of the measure, lawmakers and aides said yesterday.

Teenagers and young adults work as aides at Growing Power. They also can study agricultural methods at workshops organized by the group.

Aides then pulled Obama away and guided him into the SUV for the trip back to the Kisumu airport and then Nairobi.

Aides counter that China would be even more of a threat if not bound by WTO rules. He is unpersuaded.

If Mr Wolfowitz is an overconfident thinker, he also seems an insecure manager, too impressed by bumptious aides.

On one occasion, he was hunting with some of his aides and a group of reporters.

It was so effective at energizing college-age voters that senior aides made it an official part of the campaign the following spring.

Messrs Kerry and Lieberman have tried to be generous, and aides called the bill an invitation to further negotiation.

In short order Aspin's aides were pleading with Nunn's staffers to "tell us precisely what the senator wants. "

Jacques Adler Jean-Pierre, one of Ms. Lassegue's aides under the tree, said nonetheless that someone had been keeping track.

President Obama usually golfs with friends and White House aides.

Mr Obama still advocates the idea, his aides insist, but is willing to live without it if that is the cost of a health deal.

Some of Mr Holbrooke's aides were in Beijing yesterday, ahead of Mr Obama's arrival on Sunday.

Yet the attorney-general's office has begun to investigate several of Mr Correa's closest aides.

Other senior aides also headed for the door.

All in all he took four showers that night, meeting and making contact with as many congressional aides as possible.

The Senate is set to be the main stumbling block to passing the reforms, according to Congressional aides.

"What's the purpose? " she frequently demands of aides when presented with a proposal.

Watch the teacher and aides interact with the children.

Aides to South Korean legislators say their bosses were told at a recent intelligence briefing to expect Kim to return to power.

During the same period, he was seen with aides of Najib Razak, then deputy prime minister and prime minister since last April.

So, again, Uncle Sam, thanks to you and your aides.

Many of his senior aides have already either been questioned or detained pending investigations.

He told his aides to forget about the economy, about generals and defense contractors and all the other extraneous political bullshit.

At the end, when his aides tried to restrain him, "It has affected me, " he complained.

The couple is said to argue in front of aides and Camilla sometimes prefers to spend time alone at her country hideaway.

But his aides are keen to hurry him on.

Zaitsev and his aides raised an observer wearing helmets at the head.

Professor Wang is currently the laboratory and two of his aides a new working.

It took me about 6 months to get it consistently right without any hypnotic tracks, earplugs, or other aides.

White House aides wouldn't say what Mr. Obama would discuss in his remarks.

But aides say his folksy style has helped endear him to Middle America.

White House aides say the trip will be both ceremonial and substantive.

Aides bused in Colom supporters to the Central Plaza and filmed them, distributing the footage to television stations.

Mr. Obama and his aides also noted that he and top advisers had consulted with bipartisan leaders in Congress.

Aides took Sasha and Malia to theme parks or water parks for the day, bringing them back to their parents at hotels at night.

Mr. Kan spent his afternoon on a national holiday discussing with his aides North Korea's attack on the South.

But the lessons apparently go down a little easier with Sandra Bullock and Bruce Willis as teachers' aides.

All his retinue, his aides, and his troops I will scatter in every direction, and pursue them with the sword.

He speaks French and German as well as Dutch: he is shy of using English in public although he is fluent in it, say aides.

Aides say he is hoping to get legislation to the floor by the end of next month or beginning of November.

Senior State Department aides jumped in staff cars to race to Arlington but immediately ran into clogged traffic in Washington.

The unit had spent weeks watching a Koran school in which the Americans believed the al-Qaida man and several aides were living.

But the anti-Americanism comes from some aides more than from the president himself.

W hen Eliot Spitzer was New York attorney-general, he and top aides would sometimes use a mental exercise to puzzle out cases.

Four more similar meetings to discuss the plan would follow, until President Obama gathered his aides one final time last Friday.

But the questionable involvement of Mr Blair's own aides in the preparation of the dossier went largely unexplored.

Yesterday, protesters smashed cars carrying the prime minister and his aides.

Aides of President-elect Barack Obama are polling senators, seeing if Holder could be confirmed.

Even Obama's scripted speeches are deliberately more forceful, aggressive and direct in taking on critics, aides say.

Too excited to sleep, both he and his aides found themselves bumping into each other as they walked around in the hotel overnight.

David Cameron's aides are privately sceptical that the Sarkozy initiative will lead anywhere.

His aides say GE's earnings growth and unerring ability to beat analysts' expectations under Mr Welch were unsustainable.

Studies show that feeling socially connected aides productivity and lowers turnover rates.

Aides said Mr Brown had borne in mind London's status as the host of the 2012 Olympics when agreeing to receive the torch.

Aides brief him by leaving lengthy voice mail messages, and he memorizes his speeches.

The king (singular), together with two aides, is expected in an hour.

Mr. Olmert's office declined comment until official publication of the report on Monday. But his aides say he will not resign.

Ms Merkel also plans to raise China's "responsibility to protect intellectual property rights" , aides said.

Treasury officials had indicated their support for earlier drafts of the bill, aides said.

However, aides to Alistair Darling, UK finance minister, said no such taxes were under consideration in the Treasury.

His aides suggest that he is now open to using the controversial tactic of budget reconciliation for health reform.

Aides to Mr Bloomberg say he would only run if several conditions were met.

Laboratory cells need carefully to a beautiful, smart Agile nurses aides, you can do?

Congressional aides sat around a long table in the Roosevelt Room and were called into the talks when their expertise was needed.

Obama aides have suggested his Administration will be much more aggressive in fighting trade abuses by China.

Aides said Obama will bring up the Chinese currency on all of his Asian stops.

As for Mr Berlusconi, he is riding out the storm, although polls indicate his standing has slipped, and aides say he is weakened.

For most of their interaction on Tuesday, each president was accompanied by a large entourage of aides.

A few of his aides took bribes.

The aides would help get appointments for children who need them and teach children basic habits like brushing teeth.

Mr Mubarak, 82, is believed to be in poor health, though his aides have denied this.

A new satellite-television channel, run by former Thaksin aides, was due to open on March 1st, but was blocked by the government.

Even before she paid her first visit to Downing Street, her campaign aides had arrived, their arms loaded with paper work.

He quickly with several aides to the seat of the Sphinx , Egypt's most famous tourist spots Giza.

In the end, about half of the senior aides supported a helicopter assault. The other half said either wait, or strike from above.

Several of his aides, however, were pacing.

About 30 people , including other doctors and legislative aides, were in attendance .

At three-thirty in the morning, the Allied commander, General Dwight Eisenhower, was meeting with his aides.

Congressional aides and Obama economic advisers say it is unlikely that either Messrs. Geithner or Summers will lose their jobs.

Ren's aides reject such charges, but the founder's writings suggest a more complex picture.

White House aides gaze fondly at the arc of the Reagan presidency in part because they pray Obama's will mirror it.

But as Rice prepared for Wednesday's trilateral talks, her aides were downplaying expectations.

He would place his former aides in positions of influence.

At the same time, Sen. Clinton's aides say she hasn't decided to take the secretary of state job even if the vetting hurdles were cleared.