In a competitive market occupied by the likes of Sky and Virgin, Mr Liassides said initially it would use the Cable and Wireless network to target the 3.2m student population.

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The serious, often diffident student was a prime target for pranksters.

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The student loan system has become a target for fraudsters, with the police pursuing extensive phishing operations.

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The active ingredient in Rapamune, rapamycin, was discovered decades ago but scientists didn't understand how the drug worked until a graduate student named David Sabatini discovered the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), a protein that acts as part of a complicated set of chemical signals that causes cells to divide.

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Mr Johnson and other MPs are urging ministers to remove student visa statistics from the government's overall net migration target.

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That makes a brilliant student from an out-of-the-way school a soft target.

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"Steps to reduce abuse of the student visa system are welcome but if the government's net migration target is to be met, they also need there to be a dramatic fall in the numbers of genuine students, " said Sarah Mulley from the Institute of Public Policy Research.

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The City University of New York was the target of a federal discrimination complaint in January by a 27-year-old honors student from Manhattan.

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The City University of New York was the target of a federal discrimination complaint in January by a 27-year-old honors student from Long Island.

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But Kennedy Orubebe, a former student leader and now chief spokesman for the militant delta group, says that the activists' real target is the government not the oil companies.

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