If someone has threatened, insulted, or otherwise vexed you in some non-criminal way, and you want it put on record, write it down, take it to a notary public, and sign it in their presence.

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And let it however be put on the record that most of the newspapers were very praiseworthy of Gordon Brown and his Cabinet as being a Cabinet of great competence in Gordon's handling and say Jacqui Smith's handling of the terrorist outrage that took place almost immediately after he'd become prime minister.

BBC: Jack Straw MP. photo courtesy Jeff Overs

While many details are left open, the joint statement was significant in that it put the AFL-CIO on record as favoring a program to admit future low-skilled workers, something labor had opposed in the past.

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They expressed a desire to put this on the record, make it public.

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At a time when Mr Bush is presiding over a plunge in the public finances and when his record on trade is (to put it politely) mixed, this looks reckless.

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But yours is a newspaper which has traditionally thrived on stories of sex, sexual misbehaviour, and isn't there a view that this, you know, your sanctimoniousness, if I may put it that way, on issues like this doesn't sit very well with the kind of record, with the kind of background your newspaper has.

BBC: Stuart Kuttner, Managing Editor, News of the World

The wicketkeeper put on 102 with Tim Bresnan, and his century made it nine in the series for England, an Ashes record for them.

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And they did it without giving up a single player on a roster that had put together the NHL's second-best record with a month to go in the lockout-shortened regular season.

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If you give a speech, why not video record the whole thing and then release the whole video or edit it into interesting chunks and put on your video blog.

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