Energy minister Greg Barker tweeted that he was "very sorry" to see Lord Marland leave the government, saying he had done a "fantastic job" and ministers had benefited from his "business brain".

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What about business people like myself who suffer from brain-damage and are disabled beyond the ability to use the internet, or e-mail?

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Sharkey is known to have a sharp brain when it comes to business - he arranged the Undertones' five year record deal.

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One of the real shortcomings of the human brain, at least in the business world, is the tendency to hold on to the past.

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There is even a new business discipline, neuroleadership, that promises to use brain science to improve senior management.

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She and her colleagues first measured enkephalin in this region of the brain in rats going about their daily business: playing, running around and gnawing on non-food toys.

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Mr Bush's decision to intervene in the Schiavo case annoyed both defenders of states' rights and the business lobby, which regarded the battle over the dying brain-damaged woman in Florida as a distraction.

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In a few short years, Gill, the Yale-educated son of the famed New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, closed the consulting business he started after he was laid off, got divorced and was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

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Desperate for better options, Mitchell, who was in the coin laundry business before he got sick, got his oncologist in Michigan to call Duke University, known for its brain cancer expertise (and, recently, for operating on Senator Edward Kennedy).

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