So it was really a perfect opportunity for Raul to appear in public.
The finance ministers in Ottawa appear to have decided that, in public at least, they should steer clear of those areas where they haven't been able to agree.
Only on February 5th did Akio Toyoda, 53, the scion of the founding family, appear in public to bow in apology and even then critics complained that he did not bow deeply enough.
Thanks in part to celebrities who no longer hide their pregnancies and appear in public with their children, the idea of what a mom looks like is changing, she said.
He put up a loyal faction of his men to demand publicly that he not allow the other half (who thought his plans lunacy) to pack it in, so that he could appear to acquiesce to the public will.
One encouraging finding is that there does indeed appear to be less corruption in countries where public servants are paid relatively well compared with other workers.
Further cuts in public spending appear to have been shelved, moves towards more government decentralisation are meeting resistance, and senior government employees are up in arms at plans to prevent them from being parachuted into cosy retirement jobs in industries they formerly regulated.
Maybe... though I've yet to see much evidence of QR codes catching the public imagination here in the UK as they appear to have done in Asia.
Donny Osmond talks about the anxieties that arose from a need to appear perfect, and the impossibility of admitting in public to flaws or errors.
And in our eagerness to appear responsive to this acute public concern, every candidate will feel compelled to offer his or her "solution" to the problem.
The Ohio State High School Athletic Association, like many of its high school sports-overseeing brethren across the nation, has wrestled with the issue about what to do to placate public school members who are upset that private schools appear to win all the titles, at least in football.
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His owner only allowed him to appear in a style of bullfighting called recortes in which members of the public jump into the ring and try and dodge the bull by running around a series of obstacles.
His programme, if there is one, remains a mystery (with the exception of a vague wish to restore public trust in government) and he has refused to appear in a televised debate with Mrs Arroyo.
"From the press reports, it would appear that the police have prematurely accused the pilots in response to public pressure and have not conducted a complete and thorough investigation of the facts, " Joel R Weiss wrote in an email quoted by the AP news agency.
"Senate Democrats have just announced a tentative health care deal that doesn't appear to include a real public health insurance option, " the organizers wrote in the note.
Although there's chatter that Chang, who owns 100% of the company with his wife, may be preparing for a public offering, for once he doesn't appear to be in a hurry.
Sunday's 4-4 draw between hosts Angola and Mali did not appear to have captured the public's imagination as the players kicked off in front of rows and rows of empty seats.
But when you speak to mothers and fathers back in Sweden, most do appear fully sold on the country's public preschool model.
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