"One of the most important tasks of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the economic base of the Nobel Prize, " the foundation said in a press release.

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But it is also being used as a training base by the Butrint Foundation, keen to teach young Albanians the pragmatic, hands-on traditions of British archaeology.

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He said he and Kyrgyz leaders did not discuss "at all" the possible closure of the base and said local officials told him there was "no foundation" for news reports about the issue.

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Because smart skins are grown by depositing layer upon layer, the base coating can be used as a foundation for adding other ingredients to tailor the material's properties for specific purposes.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

That has to be seen as building the base of the recovery out from a firm foundation.

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With the historian Ramachandra Guha, he is a trustee of the New India Foundation, which sponsors lectures, fellowships and books from its base in Bengaluru, formerly known as Bangalore.

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Our base foundation around virtualization of Big Data has been tried around the world under the most pressing conditions and across applications and transactional systems.

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The new foundation degrees are designed to offer credible qualifications for students starting from a lower academic base.

BBC: Plan to launch new degrees

Daniel Lurie, CEO and founder of Tipping Point, a San Francisco-based foundation working to reduce poverty in the Bay Area, says the nonprofit's user base has broadened significantly over its seven-year history.

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