Dr Peter Mace, assistant medical director of the private health group Bupa, said some of these tests did have a role to play but that explanation of risk was key.

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This matters because the payroll - the list of ministers and whips and Parliamentary Private Secretaries (PPSs) and chairmen, deputy chairmen and assistant chairmen at party HQ, who're all expected to support the government - is an important factor in Commons votes.

BBC: Muzzled?

Technology companies that go public demonstrate a sharp drop-off in innovation after they come public compared to similar firms that stay private, according to a new study by Shai Bernstein, assistant professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Spitzer worked as an attorney in the public and private sectors before he was elected attorney general, including serving as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan district attorney's office from 1986 to 1992.

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Collins is the second Krzyzewski assistant in five years to earn his first head coaching job at a private, academically elite school in a major conference: Johnny Dawkins left the Duke staff to take the top job at Stanford in 2008.

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"It's exceptional for a private sector company to be chosen for this kind of collaboration, " says Tarique Niazi, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin and a native of Islamabad.

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From 2003 to 2005, she was an Assistant Special Counsel at the Sentencing Commission and, prior to that, spent four years working in private practice in both Boston and the District of Columbia.

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