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Asked whether he was asking the French government to rush Lyonnais's sale, van Miert replied, " You can only privatize when you have a buyer, and you only have a buyer when you're sure there are no skeletons in the cupboard ."
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A New York Times News Service article sent on Friday Nov . 3 about South African museum collections of the bones of blacks gathered in the early 1900's omitted the names of two historians cited in the article who have written a book on the subject, " Skeletons in the Cupboards : South African Museums and the Trade in Human Remains, 1907-1917 ."
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Tea ladies in general were a frequent target of illusory " cuts " and " economies " in " Yes Minister ", frequently conjured up by Nigel Hawthorne's character Sir Humphrey Appleby, but a tea lady was only once seen onscreen during the whole five-series run of the show, sharing a lift with Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby in the episode " The Skeleton in the Cupboard ".
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The story " The Skeleton In The Cupboard " ( the final story in " Yes, Minister " ) takes place in the early 1980s, as it revolves around the uncovering of a scandal that took place " thirty years ago " in " the early fifties " . " Party Games ", the opening story in " Yes, Prime Minister ", follows on directly after this story, and in it Hacker makes a speech that he believes will secure his nomination as PM on Friday, 13 January.
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Mrs Aria insisted that " Dr Phillips " had " fluttered the dovecotes of Maida Vale, rattled the skeletons in the cupboards and the stout ladies at the card-tables, but never merited the popular suspicion that the hero was taken from life . " On the other hand, Mrs Belloc Lowndes suggested that the characters in " Dr Phillips " had been more closely based on real-life individuals than those of any other Frank Danby novel, recalling particularly that the character of Dr Phillips " was supposed to have been drawn from a well-known doctor, and he must have felt the cap fitted his head, for he bought up and destroyed every copy he was able to procure ."
