Ask Bill Gates what advice he'd offer the next U.S. president to improve American competitiveness and innovation, and he gives a wry chuckle.
Councillors are unhappy Bill Longmore went against advice to appoint his former campaign manager as his deputy.
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It will then be up to MSPs whether to accept that advice in the Referendum Bill which will go through Holyrood from the spring.
Go to a lawyer, a doctor, a financial wizard and you come away with a bill and perhaps a morsel of advice that may be no more helpful than that dispensed by the Delphic Mrs Lederer.
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The justice secretary explained the bill would enshrine the right to legal advice before questioning in stature, increase the time for detention without charge from six hours to 12 hours and up to 24 hrs in the most serious circumstances with appropriate safeguards.
For that reason, this reviewer opened his new book with some trepidation: would Mr Stiglitz now say that the American economy would have performed so much better if only Bill Clinton and others had taken his advice when he was on the White House's Council of Economic Advisers in 1993-97?
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Worcestershire County Council's Labour group wants Bill Longmore to quit after he went against advice to appoint his former campaign manager as his deputy.
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The Cabinet Office said Parliament was required to seek the consent of the Queen and the Prince of Wales for certain bills and consent had only ever been refused on ministers' advice and never for a government bill.
In Westminster Hall, the Commons parallel debating chamber, one of the subjects will pick up complaints about the Legal Aid etc Bill - the effect of changes to legal aid on the not-for-profit advice sector.
Gordon Brown has taken advice from a group of "wise men", such as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, for several years.
Matt Lancashire from Citizens Advice Scotland agreed there was a "lack of detail about many aspects of the bill" and it would be helpful if the Scottish government had a role in the legislation.
On the flip side, Mr. Tully figures that his firm would likely see an increase in demand for its legal services if the bill were to become law, as he's already heard from more than a dozen clients seeking advice on how to avoid litigation.
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