Specifically, the publisher asked us not to introduce ourselves to an event Transformers: The Fall of Cybertron , which we were invited next week, we cannot cover it as planned.

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The publisher immediately asked for more.

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In the face of a declining subscriber base, intense competition from smaller, targeted newspapers in the area, and a lousy ad market I asked both the publisher and the general manager what they were going to do to drive revenue growth.

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The audience was attentive and Robin Lewis, a fabled reporter and publisher of the Robin Report asked some incisive questions which Mr. Johnson fielded well.

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But almost 60 years after the kids first created mayhem in the Beano, Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson has asked the city's council to create a Bash Street next year.

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The publisher of the Daily Mail has asked senior judges to consider whether an inquiry into press standards should hear evidence anonymously.

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Then the U.S. music publisher Lou Levy asked Mr. Gimbel to devise an English cover.

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Finally, the publisher stopped in front of a glass-fronted bookcase full of manuscripts and asked Rousselot if it was his first time in Paris.

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