WHO's six principal paymasters supports the idea, and tightening of financial controls on the regions may, in practice, do the trick.

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That is the principal way of exercising idea muscles.

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"The kids all know about this from the Internet but the parents have no idea, " says Arthur Williams, principal at Huron High School in Ann Arbor, Mich.

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"There will be difficulties, but broadening the study areas is a good idea", says Vivienne Boyle, the acting principal at the Girls' Model School in North Belfast.

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Clayton High School principal Louise Losos came up with what she thought was a clever idea for keeping an eye on the students at her Missouri school.

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Most law schools are stuck with the idea that law is a dignified profession with elegant theories that should be the principal focus of law school classes.

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The idea, which follows a review of existing teaching standards by Sally Coates, principal of Burlington Danes Academy in London, includes scrapping the current system for assessing experienced teachers.

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To give you some idea about Nicola, I spoke with the person who hired her at the Department, former Principal Deputy Chief of the Fraud Section, and now a partner at Mintz Levin, Paul Pelletier.

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