Some bloggers and wrote that Microsoft hid its skeletons in the closet during the speech -- straying from tablets and smartphones, which are big topics with other companies.

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Banks are hiding their private derivative skeletons in the closet.

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Columbia has a few old skeletons in the family closet too.

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He's just hired an assistant to try to make some order out of the skeletons in his mammoth closet.

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Director Adam Shankman has several cheesy skeletons in his closet ("Cheaper by the Dozen 2, " for example) but he was a choreographer first, and it shows.

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Moussavi himself has quite a number of nasty skeletons in his closet from his years as the prime minister during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), with his brutal suppression of dissident movements, ideological purging of the universities and so on.

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As Owen discovers, several people have skeletons they'd like to keep hidden in the closet.

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