Such rumours gained ground this week when the company publicly overturned Sir Nick's decision to award all it's advertising work to one agency, WPP - a firm run by a personal friend of his.
If you're going to administer painful medicine, then it's better to do so decisively and all in one dose than to revise and renegotiate down the road.
That's just one thing to be thankful for, it's all time for our weekly visit from the econonaut.
It's a scene all too familiar to baseball fans: one of the game's greats accused of taking steroids.
It's a challenge that makes all others that much harder to solve, and one that's been subject to a lot of political posturing.
But that's not all, folks -- each one gets shipped to Switzerland, where it's given the official stamp of authenticity, and returned to the workshop where precious stones are added for the final touch.
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"They still think, 'It's our right to provide all these services and no one else has that right, '" Cooper said.
It's one thing to do all the talking now, but as soon as you have the helmet on, you simply want to perform and do your best.
Now, I think it's very important to understand that one speech is not going to solve all the problems in the Middle East.
Getting back to number one and all that it entails, it's not easy to get there in the first place.
"The test of running for president is a long one, and it's a tough one, so I expect to be tough all the way, and I expect to compete with the same underdog mentality, " Kerry told reporters before departing for Missouri.
As it happens, it's actually standard for all-in-one PCs to pack mobile components.
And if you've already got one foot in the iTunes river, it's impossible not to appreciate it all... if only a little bit.
For Ed, it's all a lost opportunity to cash in on being one of the first selected to buy Google Glass.
The Plantation Course at Kapalua was built on a mountain, and it's one of the toughest courses to walk all year.
The world's economy relies on the full faith and credit of the United States, and it's one thing that enables us to keep all of our interest rates down, so that we can afford to borrow and grow and live.
It's going to be one of those elections, probably, where they have to just wait for all the absentee ballots to come in.
We've all seen it done, but no one's ever seen it done right -- and Steve seems to think it's going to be off the chain.
"Of the ... people who donated (to The One Fund), if you polled them, they think it's going to all the victims, not a selected class, " he said after the meeting Tuesday.
"From concept to consumer, it's all in one chain now, " he says.
After all, it's one thing for the Health Minister to say that she "cannot imagine organs being removed if a family refused permission".
"It's a place to pause between all of the constant chatter of iPads and smartphones, a place to actually communicate with one another, " he says.
During economic good times, it's not unusual for the state to collect one-half of all income-tax revenue from the top 1%.
It's always nice to get one over on your former club but all we were concentrating on was getting the points.
If all goes well, it'll be operational in June of 2011, and it's just one aspect of the country's effort to consolidate all emergency alerts into one centralized system.
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On this new record, the sound of the Heartless Bastards has caught up to her unique talent and that's all it took for a workman like band to become a great one.
Alternatively, if you prefer to stay in your historic architecture rather than simply walk around it, check into one of the country's soothing heritage hotels, all sure to relieve you of the stresses of a temple-filled afternoon.
It's hard to get your head around how one man could create all of this.
Publications that ignored our story when it appeared are now falling all over one another to report on bt's woes.
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