Schools which are deemed to be not doing enough to close the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils will have to produce action plans showing how they will spend pupil premium funding.

BBC: Primary schools face tougher targets

The Second World War is drawing to its exhausted close, but these young Americans still seem to be doing battle with themselves, and, rather than expressing their quandary in song, they carve a woman out of sand on the beach.

NEWYORKER: Sail Away

We choose an exercise close to what they will be doing on daily basis, even for non-technical roles.

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Where are the -- how many skimmers are actually out there now close enough to shore to be doing some good?

WHITEHOUSE: Daily Press Briefing

If it becomes a petro-currency, many factories will be forced to close unless the needlessly high costs of doing business in Brazil are slashed.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Pure hardware attributes only get you so far, and judging by the amount of integration time that went into this project, Microsoft would be doing itself a huge disservice to launch anything even close to not smooth-as-butter.

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Plaid who've been told by their own senior members - let's take a flying leap here and assume they were talking about Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM and former AM and party chair Helen Mary Jones - that they're doing badly in elections precisely because they're seen to be too close to the Tories.

BBC: The Minister's end of term report

What they should be doing instead is examining how other professions like engineering, consulting and software run their businesses with close attention to decreasing costs and increasing efficiency.

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