Hints and tips:
...Palmer’s response to the journalist was curt. “I don’t talk to the Courier-Mail. I don’t like them. See you, bye.”...
...What I get is a curt nod. Lord Sugar installs himself behind his outsize glass desk and I sit, Apprentice-style, at one of many chairs on the large glass table in front of him....
...The curt response reveals I have stepped over into lèse majesté. “We only do one sort of succession planning....
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