In 1992, she continued her language education in an Advanced French Studies program at the University of British Columbia.

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To give two high-profile examples, Ibbotson and Associates and the academic duo of Eugene Fama and Kenneth French did similar studies that found that value stocks, as measured by low price-to-book ratios, outperform growth stocks over the long run.

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Banfield received a bachelor's degree in political studies and French from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.

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Studies show that French pupils report unusually high levels of stress and anxiety.

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He made it as fashionable as philosophy and poetry, both of which he wove through his ethnographical studies as perhaps only French intellectuals can.

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In Sullivan's day, American architectural studies were dominated by the French Beaux-Arts tradition, and particularly by Viollet-le-Duc's romantic rationalism.

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In fact studies suggest that the problem with French employees is less that they are work-shy, than that they are poorly managed.

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Studies of the debris and bodies found soon after the crash led the French agency to conclude the plane hit the water belly first, essentially intact.

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Staff at a London-based Islamic research body, the Institute for Ismaili Studies, have ranged from radicals like Mohammed Arkoun, a leader of the French deconstructionist school, to traditional Sunni or Sufi scholars.

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Abbott says its studies show no added risk, and one supporter, German cardiologist Klaus Mathias, says the French study was the most poorly run clinical trial he had ever seen.

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