In terms of its conclusion the report pulls back from the full radical view which would be to scrap all the different agencies and bring back an arms length body like the Welsh Development Agency which co-ordinated much of this before it was demolished in 2006.

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Such models, which are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, take inputs such as the costs of clinical trials, the length of each stage of drug development and the probability of success at each stage.

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The city of Shanghai has been utterly transformed, and development at an astonishing pace has spread far down the length of the Yangzi river, a region encompassing perhaps 300m people.

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City officials in Oakland have been trying for over a decade to attract a viable development to the site, which is located along an estuary that runs the length of Oakland's southern border and out into the San Francisco Bay.

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China, for the first time, sent its top soldier to the annual meeting -- General Liang Guanglie -- who spoke at length about China's peace-loving nature and focus on cooperative development and security in the region.

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