An elaborate plan to patch up the quarrel collapsed when Mr Netanyahu's prideful coalition partners refused to let him go beyond expressing regret and offer a formal apology.

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He came up with an elaborate plan.

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Friedman assures detractors that while he identifies as politically libertarian, his plan is not an elaborate tax evasion scheme.

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Whether elaborate or simple, a written business plan is an assembly of facts, ideas, assumptions and projections about the future.

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To prove that such a plan can work, Hughes has lashed together an elaborate network in the Old Colorado City historic section of Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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