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The nicest hotels, part 2.


Congressmen and their staff members are not the only government officials to live well while traveling. Consider the 19 American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of  intelligence agents who angered the Italian government by snatching a Muslim cleric in 2003. Italian prosecutors and police have uncovered Uncovered may refer to:
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 credit card and hotel records that show the agents running up bills as much as $500 per person a day at hostelries like Milan's Hotel Principe di Savoia, which calls itself "one of the world's most luxuriously lux·u·ri·ous  
adj.
1. Fond of or given to luxury.

2. Marked by or contributing to luxury.

3. Of a sumptuous, costly, or rich variety. See Synonyms at sensuous.
 appointed hotels," where the total tab came to $42,000. After they had dispatched Dispatched was a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in 1992 by Daniel Lundberg. Their sound is very similar to the older Gothenburg style of early In Flames. Biography
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 the cleric to Germany, several of the agents felt the need for some further R&R. "Four of them," writes Craig Whitlock of The Washington Post, "checked into luxury hotels" in Venice.
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Title Annotation:American intelligence agents make merry
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
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Date:Jul 1, 2005
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