And the study is relatively recent, but it did get a lot of attention when it first published.

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It is enough for me to suspend my consulting practice and focus full time on writing the book and will be sufficient to get it designed, edited and published in hardcover and ebook formats.

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The public accounts committee criticised the Treasury for providing figures that were "too dated", because of the 20 months it took to get them published, and complained that some major costs were omitted such as the publicly-owned banks and Network Rail.

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When Waldmann started touting this idea in 1993 as a strategy for treating various autoimmune disorders, the idea was so fringy that it took him two years to get his first big study published.

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Nothing But the Truth has garnered praise from playwright and activist Eve Ensler, MS Magazine editor Katherine Spillar, actor Peter Coyote, and many more influential people, but we encountered a great deal of resistance from the traditional publishers, some of whom told us that it would take at minimum 18 months to get the already edited book published.

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To get a sense of how innovation is morphing, it is instructive to read the recently published Harvard Business Review (HBR) article on the topic.

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It has been a stated aim of successive governments to get the number of exclusions down and figures published by the Department for Education (DfE) show that since 1997 permanent exclusions from schools in England have more than halved from 12, 300 to 5, 740.

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But with writing, finding someone who has that level of expertise to work with - unless I'm, you know, able to pay thousands of dollars, which, until I get published and wind up on Oprah with a best seller, I don't have - it just seems almost impossible to find.

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