Times editor-at-large Jim Newton covered the LAPD as it struggled with the fallout from the King beating and the years of study, oversight and reform that followed.

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Still, preventing such a catastrophe in the future will require further study and deeper reform.

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The University of Alaska Institute for Social and Economic Reform carried out a study into the costs of climate change, based on predictive climate models.

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They went over a comprehensive energy reform plan, and based on their study, they realized that they would be dependent on liquid fuels, but base load wise, they could be energy independent through nuclear power.

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The study came about because the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act directed the CFBP to compare credit scores sold to consumers and lenders.

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We will also reform the curriculum so that students get a better and broader range of options for study beyond the age of 14, developing their talents and challenging them to achieve more.

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Close study was needed of what the Conservative Way Forward and the Tory Reform Group were up to.

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It promotes school choice, but only within the public school system, and notes that no other government in the study has followed the American model for reform.

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