"There are a lot of secondary impacts of climate change which will make the quality of life in the island Pacific very, very bad, as opposed to, say, very large land masses where people have a lot more freedom to move around, " Koshi says.

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Mr Munitz says he wants his campuses to concentrate on what he sees as the vital but much-neglected job of improving the quality of America's primary and secondary schools.

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So while Dell's computers are of impressive quality, its products are secondary to cash and inventory controls that make the sale of its products so profitable.

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Schoolteachers are protesting, too, against a rapid decline in the quality of primary and secondary education.

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Mr Gapes said the quality of care was becoming secondary to "deficit-reducing bean-counting", telling MPs he was "extremely angry at the betrayal of my constituents" and pointing out that the current government had spoken out against the closure of hospital services whilst in opposition.

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It is getting close to the stage where the quality and integrity of the cricket is of secondary importance to making money, and that is a seriously dangerous place to be.

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