"The company has advised me that the 90-day notice will allow for negotiations with the trade unions and provide the company with an opportunity to seek new work from the group, " the East Belfast assembly member said.

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There is growing demand for boards to undergo a formal evaluation process, to assess both the performance of each individual board member and how they work together as a group.

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Verisign, for instance, which administers the Web's millions of .com and .net sites, has declined to comment on the APWG initiative even though it is a member of APWG and has long supported the group's anti-phishing advocacy work.

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In the ad, titled "Ambition, " the narrator says "blind ambition" led Obama to work with Ayers and then later lie about his association with the former member of the Weather Underground, a group formed in 1960's to protest the Vietnam War.

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There is one further, potentially critical factor at work in the PLO aid equation: Horatius Forbes is a member of an activist freshman congressional class - a group that has, in recent weeks, shown itself increasingly willing to defy its leadership and, if necessary, to defeat legislation contrary to core Republican beliefs.

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