In addition, investors have faced Ponzi schemers like Bernie Madoff and Alan Stanford and many others.

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The Guthrie did "Pride and Prejudice" in the 2003-2004 season with an adaptation by James Maxwell which was revised by Alan Stanford.

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By the same token, firms develop drugs for the global market, observes Alan Garber of Stanford, not just for the local one.

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The work earned Carstensen acclaim among psychology professors, but she woke up to a wider possibility after sharing her findings with her friend Alan Garber, an economics professor at Stanford, in 2004.

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Inflation has had its challengers since it was first proposed in the 1980s by Alan Guth of MIT and Andrei Linde of Stanford.

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