An official in Washington coyly refuses to confirm even the number of exercises being held.

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When Ms Winfrey asked if she was thinking about 2012, Mrs Palin coyly replied that she was concentrating on 2010 and the mid-terms.

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When asked which of the unionist parties he most strongly favours, the candidate laughed coyly, saying only that he had voted for them all.

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But in the immediate repeat of that phrase Mr. Lang was already up to his attention-grabbing tricks: coyly prolonging the upbeat, milking the tune emotively, making everything cute.

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She coyly tells him to ask her again tomorrow.

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She agrees, smiling coyly back at Him.

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Nick Neumann, a young American, throws over a promising career at Morgan Stanley, and his beautiful, rich fiance, for a job at what Reich coyly renames the United Swiss Bank -- and a chance to find out who murdered his father nearly 20 years before.

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The company is pledging that we'll see these "born electric" cars in production by 2013 and coyly specifies that three is not the smallest number nor eight the largest, meaning we should expect other models to fill that gap -- just like the company's current alphanumeric lineup.

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Mr. Gorbachev coyly disclosed President Bush's explicit abandonment of standing U.S. policy against direct Soviet involvement in Middle East peace conference and peacekeeping efforts, emphasizing that henceforth the United States would be encouraging Moscow to play an important diplomatic and even military role in the Middle East.

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