HMV's administrator, accountancy group Deloitte, said it would try to sell the Irish shops.

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Shortly after the first-year tests were completed, the classmate said, a neuroscience administrator took the group to drinks at a nearby bar, the Cedar Creek Pub, to tell them that Mr. Holmes had dropped out of the program.

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Stern also chairs the Commercial Spaceflight Federation's Suborbital Applications Researchers Group and is a former NASA associate administrator for science.

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