All of which may seem a bit academic right now, with RBS shares massively underwater, as they say, at 290p.
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Over the past few weeks, the committee has been hearing from people involved in organ transplantation, from the academic ethicists right through to those who have to have those unimaginably difficult discussions with families at their time of greatest grief about the personal wishes of their loved one at the point of death.
They are only moved up into the next class when teachers decide they are mature enough and are at the right academic level.
Many hold the coach responsible for his team's World Cup failure, and his style - calm, academic, almost aloof - is right out of fashion.
In the meantime, there is the third path: find new drugs being developed by other companies or academic labs, and license the right to sell them for a cut of the profits.
Myriad is being sued by a group representing academic researchers, claiming it cannot be right that genetic sequences can be owned as intellectual property.
Sir Michael said the secret to boosting children's reading and writing abilities - and their overall academic performance - lay in getting things right when they were young.
Processing that data so quickly is academic , unless it can get to the right managers quickly.
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For much of his life a leftist academic, he has built a coalition from right to centre-left.
Which explanation proves right will be of more than academic interest.
Mr Ghoshal and his supporters are right that top business schools strive for academic respectability, and that this has led them to rely heavily on economic theory.
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Whether dollarisation was the right policy for Ecuador is now a matter for academic debate.
Nowhere is the blind complacency of the establishment more evident than in its bovine attitude toward academic degrees: as long as my child goes to the right schools, upward mobility will continue.
"You would have thought they would have been more sophisticated in doing trials and would have had all the right checks and balances, " says Eric Topol, chief academic officer at the Scripps Health in California.
Public exasperation with academic introversion may lead to a loss of some independence, the most precious right of academics in a free society.
The right thing for us in higher education to do is get out of the academic arms race by allocating financial aid dollars more equitably.
More broadly, the academic research on the effectiveness of aid suggests that the emphasis should be on choosing the right countries and programmes, rather than on quantity.
But a spokesperson said it was vital to get the basics right in primary schools and to make the curriculum relevant to older, non-academic secondary school pupils.
The representatives of 192 national governments, along with countless lobbyists and special interest groups, will gather between 7-18 December against a backdrop of increasingly gloomy academic papers, all predicting dramatic and catastrophic changes to the world -- unless we act right now.
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Past the Pretoria Academic Hospital, the main road heads left, while a less-used lane curves to the right.
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That's right, the National Rifle Association's fire-breathing defender of gun rights is more academic than marksman.
This approach is interesting in its own right and at the same time synergetic with several other projects we are funding through the Intel Labs Academic Research Office.
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And even the dogged idealists privately admit that traditional right-wing policies such as corporal punishment (teachers disapproved of its abolition in 1987) and academic selection (they resisted comprehensives in the 1960s and 1970s) would make their jobs easier.
Assuming that these new books are right (not a fully warranted assumption), and that many students are increasingly disengaged from the academic part of the college experience, it may be because the system has become too big and too heterogeneous to work equally well for all who are in it.
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