The U.S. also pioneered innovations in university education, land ownership, home ownership and individual rights.
As a young, ambitious woman entrepreneur in university, most of my professors were men.
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While still in university, Bennett, like so many other Israelis, decided to get into high tech.
To foster entrepreneurship, Sweden allows scientists to own the rights to discoveries whipped up in university laboratories.
The government wants more teacher training to be delivered 'on the job' instead of in university-based courses.
In university towns and cities across the UK, tens of thousands of jobs depend on international students.
Sometimes I wonder just how out of touch folks in university circles can be with the real world.
He said the decision to support the rise in university tuition fees was "the most heart-wrenching for me".
U, a consortium of universities working to encourage deployment of ultra high-speed broadband networks in university towns.
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Dr. Levine heads the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Presbyterian Hospital in University of Texas-Southwestern in Dallas.
The Scottish Government's draft budget, published in September, saw a real terms increase of 2.1% in university resource budgets.
In university, Mr. Hollein says he rebelled by studying business, when his family expected him to pursue the arts.
Sharma, 49, met his wife, Sarita, 39, after both left their native Nepal and enrolled in university in Virginia.
In fact, the institute in Oxford is in university offices above a gym, where self-preservation is about a treadmill and Lycra.
Mr Clegg has been burned in effigy by students, after breaking a pre-election pledge to oppose a rise in university-tuition fees.
It is assets such as government bonds, once safely in the mainstream, that must fight for their place in university portfolios.
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"When I was studying in university there were 30 in my class, now five of them are in prison, " he says.
Kinkade's career started while she was still in university, working for free on weekends at the major commercial networks and local newspapers in Sydney.
He has held a series of prominent roles in university associations, according to his curriculum vitae, published on the al-Najah University website.
These include high-speed rail, increased subsidies for new light rail lines, massive investments in University research and investment breaks for renewable fuels.
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Mrs Halappanavar died in University Hospital Galway following a miscarriage last October.
In University Place, city leaders earlier this year campaigned on television and online to counter concerns that the city was going broke.
Mr Salmond said while there were "huge challenges" coming up in university funding, tuition fees were not part of Scottish government proposals.
Hadley supposed that his own living quarters, in university-owned housing, were minimal, cramped, somewhere in the row of subsidized apartments along the river.
She is unimpressed by Mr Blair's insistence that it was only fair for graduates, not taxpayers, to plug the gap in university finances.
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Teenagers may be deciding to delay the time they start driving, a trend possibly connected to the rise in university admissions, said Mr Howard.
Mrs Smith spent a week in University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) with bleeding, but was discharged with suspected gallstones in March last year.
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He soon had an idea for a new product based on work he did in university improving a wheelchair for a disabled fellow student.
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There will be no large increases in university tuition fees for students starting courses in 2012, the first and deputy first ministers have confirmed.
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