To do otherwise is to invite categorically wrong conclusions and catastrophically bad results, both theoretical and real.

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The two studies have opened a genuine conceptual and theoretical debate on both topics.

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Their careers reveal the modern fusion of theoretical and practical finance: both had an interest in the stockmarket since childhood, and after their early work on options-pricing both supplemented their academic incomes with Wall Street consultancies.

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But there is no national sample of students who took both tests, so Pearson created its own theoretical sample.

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The debate is not theoretical and is already having practical implications on both utilities and energy developers.

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Dale Nordquist, associate director of the Center for Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota, said Missouri's practical approach to understanding farm finances is relatively uncommon at large, land-grant universities where both students and professors are more likely to concentrate on theoretical approaches as opposed to practical solutions, and the use of personal data can still be seen as an intrusion.

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Given our dependence on the communication systems of our planet, both satellite- and ground-based, this is not simply a theoretical worry.

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There arises at some point the at least theoretical threat that if one gives a Protector the power to both fire and appoint a Trustee, the Protector will appoint herself as the Trustee.

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Riley Hassell and Shane Macaulay, two researchers with mobile security-focused Privateer Labs, plan to present two theoretical attacks on Android at the Black Hat security conference next month, both demonstrating new ways that a piece of mobile malware downloaded to a phone can surreptitiously exploit unexpected functions to gain control of the device, steal data, or make expensive phone calls.

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Both campaigns have teams of lawyers ready for legal challenges in various states, and lengthy recounts are more than a theoretical possibility.

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