Ms. Lim has worked extensively in the field of education and provided professional consultancy to many institutions and organizations, including UNESCO.

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His firm, a marketing consultancy for professional service providers, released the results of a survey of 200 business-book authors.

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Mr Dodds said approximately 45% of the work associated with consultancy and professional fees "remained of value to the department".

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The minister said this total included costs on legal, commercial, financial and technical consultancy and other professional fees, which were incurred from when the scheme was first launched in 2005 until 2009.

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Bower modelled the consultancy on the lines of a professional law firm, establishing a set of values by which it was to be guided.

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No professional operating system gets better grades from users, according to Datapro, another consultancy (see chart).

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"There is no such thing as a modern professional sports franchise that can survive without those revenues, " says Marc Ganis, president of Sportscorp, a Chicago consultancy.

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