Casey had already begun playing with code before he joined CoderDojo, and played a role in having a branch set up in his town.

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He then set up a branch in New York and, after McKinsey's death, helped rebuild the company around its New York operation.

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He wrote back then to the Presiding Officer asking her to set up a root and branch review of the Assembly's procedures and how its engagement with the public might be improved.

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Appeal collection points have been set up and a bank account opened at the Llanelli branch of HSBC.

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"We are carrying out a root and branch reform of the National Curriculum to set out the essential knowledge that children need, while leaving schools free to decide how to teach it, " he said.

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The FA board has also sanctioned a "root and branch" examination of the whole England team set up, led by FA chief executive Brian Barwick, whose own position has been questioned in the wake of the team's failure to qualify.

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The decision to set up a subsidiary in a new market (as opposed to just opening a branch) may be a harder one for boards, since it involves legal incorporation and taking on personal liabilities.

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The opposition began a root-and-branch review of policy in 2010 and is expected to set out its stall on key issues in the year ahead, in the run-up to the next general election - scheduled for 2015.

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This mind-set was typical of the engineers and technocrats who disproportionately made up the extremist branch of Salafism, a school of thought intent on returning Islam to the idealized early days of the religion.

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