The latest effort by the bank's governor, Jean-Claude Trichet, to streamline the bloated institution has caused such a rumpus that even France's finance minister has intervened.

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Mr Lansley's plans might have caused less of a rumpus with more explicit warning.

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Leaked recordings of telephone chats between an intermediary and some of India's most powerful businesspeople have caused a headline-hogging rumpus.

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And surrounding the alien rumpus, the filmmakers have built an unexpectedly sincere salute to the awesome responsibilities of today's U.S. Navy as well as to the heroic work of veterans who came before.

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The rumpus has rumbled on ever since with each side taking increasingly-entrenched stands, culminating in Friday's legal action.

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