It will require students to study harder. (Applause.) It will require some workers to start studying all over again.

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The reimbursement was a financial reminder of what tuition costs, but as well it gave them an appreciation and all said later it taught them to work more, study harder.

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Students will be forced to study harder in secondary school and suck everything out of that free public opportunity, instead of waking up to the importance of education at age 20.

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But in the longer term, students and their parents are likely to think a lot harder about whether to study full time or part-time, how long for, in what subject and where.

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In their study, the US researchers found that animals worked harder to get doses of Nocaine than to receive a saline solution, but less hard than they did to obtain doses of cocaine.

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Probably the most telling result of the study is that the more we fight an earworm, the harder it is to turn off.

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And the same study shows that the longer you're out of work, the harder it is to get a new job.

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He said companies could use the same technique to study how employees respond to different compensation schemes, for example, or whether they work harder if the company is involved in local charities.

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