In a city as profoundly Democratic as New York, however, Giuliani is likely not a brand any candidate wants his own brand to be too closely associated with.

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Many of the names that have been put forward as potential members of his government they have still to be approved by the Senate are closely associated with military rule.

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The Israelis have suggested a NATO-led force, but many Europeans feel NATO is too closely associated with the United States to be considered neutral in the region.

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The Republican, Mr Keller, is closely associated with the National Rifle Association, and this may be one of those rare cases where fierce opposition to gun control may be an electoral liability.

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Still, two researchers closely associated with PPAR research are questioning whether the rat cancer can be extrapolated to humans in this case.

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Unlike Chatichai, an old-style powerbroker closely associated with vested interests, Chuan, 59, is known to be clean and honest -- if also slow and indecisive -- and is regarded as being more qualified for the job of resuscitating the Thai economy.

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It may be that one early influence on his social attitudes came from his mother who had been closely associated with the suffragette movement.

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CDC, hopes that because syphilis is so closely associated with poor public health services, a campaign to eliminate it could be used as a way of improving public health more generally.

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