Deputy Conservative deputy chairman Michael Fallon said it was wrong to suggest there had been political interference in the decision about Mr Goodwin.

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However, in a paper in Current Biology, Clare Lynch and Michael Tristem, of Imperial College, London, suggest an answer.

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Education Secretary Michael Gove said it was "ludicrous" to suggest the Tories were following Labour's lead on issues like responsible capitalism.

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You are now hearing respected city economists such as Michael Saunders, who supported Mr Osborne in 2010, suggest that a modest increase in capital spending might be a net positive for the economy, even if it did raise borrowing.

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With the hierarchically ordered individuals studied by Sir Michael and his successors, both medical records and experiments on animals suggest stress hormones are involved.

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Among other liberalising moves, he has hired a team of international consultants, led by Michael Porter, an economist from America's Harvard University, to detect symptoms and suggest cures.

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It's show business, after all, not imply or suggest business, a notion that was embraced and applied with sly verve by Michael Keaton in the 1989 feature that also got an enormous theatrical kick from Jack Nicholson's performance as The Joker.

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Thereafter, Michael himself begins to demonstrate the same elusive symptoms, whose subtly mystical character and tendency to come and go torturously suggest that the problem may be in his head.

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