Mr Malki made his address while seated behind a name plate that read 'State of Palestine'.

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Mark Hurd had one key memento on his desk: His name plate from the day when, as the newly-minted chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, he had to testify before Congress about his involvement in taping the phone calls of journalists and HP employees.

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And as a consequence of Greek opposition to recognition of Macedonia by its own constitutional name as the Republic of Macedonia, when the representatives of the Skopje government took their seats at the United Nations after some delay in 1993, they sat behind a name plate referring to the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, or Fyrom for short.

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But as I wrote on 12 July, simply changing the name on the brass plate above a parading quango's door is no guarantee of success.

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He kept a wine locker there, his name engraved on a brass plate between two other regulars: George H.

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Ms. Clavijo's daughter, Brenda, is the rare female rider, sporting a 1958 Schwinn with a mini license plate on the handlebars bearing her name.

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The Leica red dot logo and the M9 lettering on the front have been omitted and replaced with the Leica name in classic script form engraved on the top plate, making the M9-P the quintessential unobtrusive tool.

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The fish (I no longer felt I deserved to call it by its rightful name), though undercooked, was vastly superior to the canned ravioli I heated on a hot plate every night.

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