So much so that they believe even deeply problematic legislation can be blown through Congress, certain that it won't matter when the public figures out what happened, because it will be too late to do anything about it.
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Conservative leader William Hague - who along with Mr Blair was one of the public figures criticised by the countess in the secretly recorded interview - said Sophie Wessex had made a "mistake" - but that it was time to forget the story.
This year, it turns out, we should also have been looking in the latest public finance figures from the ONS, released on the 21 March.
True to form, the borrowing numbers have changed again with the release of the March public finance figures - the last set of monthly numbers for the 2012-13 financial year.
Mr Gummer tells us it was hard work persuading the Department of Transport to make the figures public and he says he now intends to raise the matter with ministers repeatedly.
With such issues, the GCs are emerging from the shadows as public figures concerned about, and participating in, the very survival of the corporate brand.
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The fact that public figures like Brown were targeted (for ten years) only intensifies the pressure.
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The EHRC was hit by a series of resignations over the summer, and several public figures including the head of Stonewall , Ben Summerskill, and president of Mencap , Lord Rix, have called on Trevor Phillips to resign.
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The aim was to lampoon the suggestibility of public figures willing to repeat, with feeling, any nonsense they are told, the bogus gravity of much current-affairs television, the hypocritical voyeurism of media coverage of sex and crime, and a lot else besides.
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One of the few sources who went on the record in the Times article, former News of the World journalist Sean Hoare, said Coulson, then his boss at the tabloid, "actively encouraged me" to hack into the voice mails of public figures to get stories for the News of the World.
Mr Lord said Concorde was the "people's plane", funded by taxpayers, and the public deserved to see the figures on how much it would cost to retain it.
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The French, who offer one model of how to think about the private life of public figures--ignore it--made the movie that best sums up the peculiar intricacies of moral judgment.
That should put wind in the sails of the many other public figures who suspect they were targets.
On Wednesday, the author of the Jillings' report told the BBC that public figures were not among names given by victims.
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The business, he concluded, wasn't as strong as the figures in public filings suggested.
He also pointed out that the most recent figures available to the public were six months old.
What we saw in the past few days since a police investigation confirmed that The News of The World had hacked the phones of several public and private figures in the UK, has been a dearth of leadership.
Like the overwhelming majority of figures in public life across the political spectrum, I entered politics because of a sense of public duty and to improve the lives and opportunities of those less fortunate than me.
Mr Gray raised concern over top pay in the public sector, pointing to figures claiming that about 900 workers were earning more than the first minister.
The government figures made public this week show the investment and return from the past 13 films made on the island.
What was even more remarkable was the hate-reaction the book provoked among public figures and in much of Britain's up-market press.
The charity made the announcement of the new figures at the start of a public awareness campaign aiming to reach the estimated seven million people at high risk of diabetes.
All of that would put Cheney firmly in the long line of public figures who were less than candid about their medical history, especially when they have something to hide.
The latest public sector employment figures showed 54, 600 full-time equivalent teachers between April and June this year - down 2, 200 on the same period last year, when the figures stood at 56, 800.
The public accounts committee criticised the Treasury for providing figures that were "too dated", because of the 20 months it took to get them published, and complained that some major costs were omitted such as the publicly-owned banks and Network Rail.
In the 1980s this meant visitors could be forgiven for thinking they had arrived on the set of a wacky sitcom, perhaps made for the Central American market, in which the actors, all speaking American with a Latin twang, were masquerading as the nation's public figures.
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