After Plowden, some schools were so busy trying to foster their pupils' individuality that they neglected to teach them to read or do sums.
So he welcomes the government's commitment to offer an apprenticeship to any young person who wants one, and can read and do sums, which was also one of the committee's recommendations.
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He told the House of Commons that the move was "a nonsense" and that it was not a time for the government to do its sums.
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In the early days of bitcoins, many people used desktop computers to do the hard sums.
But even these enormous sums do not buy much: railways account for 40% of the government's total transport budget but only 8% of the journeys made.
They also tested whether the learning process was conscious by distracting the subjects during the video viewing - the volunteers were asked to do simple arithmetic sums in their head, for example.
He has also managed to amass a huge war chest for next year and donors do not give such sums to candidates who are likely to lose.
This arrangement, run by Amazon, a large internet firm, pays people registered with it (known as Turkers) small sums of money to do jobs for others.
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The contrast between this and this sums up what we could do on the business side, but these kinds of inefficiencies exist across government.
But for the most part, do you really think most journalists are worth the sums they are paid?
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They often invest respectable sums in computers and information technology but do not seem to reap the same productivity gains from it as many American firms, according to John van Reenen and Nick Bloom of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.
He will do this by confirming previous plans to continue pumping ever-increasing sums of money into the ailing system.
These sums are reported to be Saudi state aid and almost certainly do not include private donations which are also distributed by state-controlled charities.
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Donna Hopkins, co-ordinator for counter piracy and maritime security at the US state department, told the BBC the Somali piracy problem was escalating and would continue to do so for as long as the pirates were able to make large sums of money.
What do I mean by that, given that the European Central Bank is lending unlimited sums to eurozone banks, to replace the money that these banks are no longer able to borrow on markets in the normal way?
Lending small sums of money for short periods of time is just an expensive thing to do.
Allowing anyone who faces unreasonable student loan sums compared with their income to seek relief through the courts, as we do with every other kind of debt, would end the horror stories.
Its members pay paltry sums to keep it pottering along, on the assumption that it would never have to do much.
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This new breed of pressure group, brought into being after a controversial Supreme Court ruling last year removed a number of spending restrictions, can raise unlimited sums from individuals and businesses and spend them praising or criticising particular candidates, as long as they do not co-ordinate their activities with the candidates themselves or the parties they represent.
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They said that colleges must spend equal sums on men's and women's sports, even though women athletes hardly knew what to do with all the money.
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There were no regrets at the end because people tried to do everything they wanted - some of them came off, some didn't - but Shane Williams' try sums up the way we want to play the game.
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