She told MSPs that the "least worst option" was to set a flat-rate fee for RUK (Rest of UK) students across the sector, to prevent them from being seen as a "cash cow" as "potentially they are now".

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But the Sankyo-Daiichi deal is seen partly as a way to prevent a Western firm from scooping them up.

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Ferrara's position has been threatened after a dismal run which has seen them slip out of contention in the Serie A title race as well as being eliminated from the Champions League at the group stages.

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For the European banks, Moody's and the other credit rating agencies are seen as grim reapers, going from country to country pronouncing in more-or-less all of them that the banks are less strong than they once were.

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It is doubtful that the concentration on less-well-known pictures (many of them seldom-seen loans from private collections) will convince people that Bonnard is, as Ms Amory claims, a modernist.

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Two men were seen running from the scene towards Stanley Street and are described as black, with one wearing black sunglasses and both of them wearing hats.

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