"It is not the length of the price in digits that determines how difficult it is to memorize, but rather how many syllables this price has when read, " explains the research by Professor Calder and academics at two other institutions.

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How pupils perform in exams will count for rather a lot, granted but how many children actually turn up every day, whether there are signs of progress - will also help decide where your school ends up near the top or towards the bottom of its band.

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But the oddest aspect of Chinachem's management was not how tough it was on costs and quality or how it finessed local building authorities familiar complaints, justified or not, about many landlords but rather how lax it was on revenues.

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But he concedes that it is what the lines say, rather than how many there are that matters, and says that he now regrets getting involved with the SOCA attack.

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The point of this one, narrowly scripted example is not to analyze the liability exposure of the registration statement of the now defunct Dow Jones Islamic Portfolio Fund, but rather to illustrate how marketing an investment product as Shariah-compliant incorporates a whole set of factual predicates, many of which are material to the investment decision.

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