But one of the first detailed empirical studies, by Peter Katzenstein of Cornell University and Robert Keohane of Princeton University, debunks the idea of a backlash against American companies.
Lushin and the Pacers basically lifted the idea from University of Central Florida professor and sports industry consultant Bill Sutton, whose Sports Sales Combine has held similar events since 2007 in Atlanta, New York, Phoenix and Orlando.
The idea of charges for university education (euphemistically known as top-up fees) strikes fear into the hearts of parents neither poor enough to benefit from state hand-outs nor rich enough not to feel the pinch of high tuition fees.
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He started by stressing that his boss Larry Page had come up with the original idea, roaming the campus of Stanford University taking pictures.
More than half of the people surveyed by the University of Michigan had no idea their paychecks had grown at all.
This is the idea propagated by University of Chicago sports economist Allen Sanderson.
But there is some evidence from extreme environments on Earth to support the married couple idea, says Lawrence Palinkas of the University of Southern California, who has studied more than 1, 000 Americans who have spent winters in Antarctica over a four-decade period.
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William Boden of the University of Buffalo says the idea that the arteries were thin does not explain away worries about Zetia's effectiveness against heart attack-causing atherosclerosis.
The professor of law at Arizona State University got the idea when he witnessed first-hand an anti-greed and corruption protest in Denver, Colorado.
The finding may encourage students who miss the A-level grades they need for university on Thursday to abandon the idea of re-applying next year.
Dr Blecher approached the problem from a business perspective - and his university is designed to promote the idea of wealth creation and the sharing of that success.
The idea got a boost when University of Pittsburgh cardiologist Arthur Feldman found that mice engineered to produce high levels of TNF died early of heart failure.
"Why this wasn't made available at the panel meeting a week ago, I have no idea, " says William Hiatt, the University of Colorado vascular medicine specialist who chaired the panel.
"Maybe he means he doesn't have the details of it yet, but I hope he has some idea what the major issues are, " Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning said of Orr.
The idea for the image - a variation on the idea of the resource footprint - comes from Dr Julian Allwood and colleagues at Cambridge University, including his PhD students.
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In the months after that first phone call, Mr. Hilton continued talks with the Conservative Party, and he put the idea of making the career switch to his classmates in the Cornell-Queen's University joint E.
But Alexandros Frantzis, of the University of Athens, believes he now has evidence to support the idea.
Jim Haseloff, a plant biologist from the UK's University of Cambridge says the bio-light is a very provocative idea.
The trend toward monitors got moving when cardiologist George Klein, of the University of Western Ontario, first approached Medtronic in 1989 with the idea of a semipermanent implant to measure heart rhythms.
The trio met at Stanford University, spinning Tableau out of the school in 2003 around the idea that companies needed simpler ways to visualize big data and databases.
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He considered the idea of becoming dean of the chapel at Boston University, his alma mater, Branch said.
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Sakyo was working for trading company Sumitomo when he read about Shibuya Ward assembly member Hasabe Ken's idea of a university based within the Shibuya community that focused on lifelong education.
But Wesley Niewoehner of the University of New Mexico has unearthed evidence that harks back to an earlier idea.
For the past five years Edward Bryant and Simon Haslett of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, have propounded the idea that a storm surge may have been wrongly accused.
His comments, made after he gave a speech at Greenwich University, London, on higher education in the 21st century, were seized on by university leaders, following reports claiming support in Downing Street for the idea of differential fees.
"We'll call them dwarf planets or something, " says Iwan Williams, an astronomer at the University of London who favors the idea and also served on the panel.
Such small acts of appeasement on behalf of university authorities give the radicals the idea that right is on their side and that, given time, everyone will see this.
Turley and Rigal, who is now a freshman at Columbia University, are currently promoting the idea of having a "bully button" on Facebook so that people can formally report cyberbullying to the social network and have bullies suspended for a given period of time.
Mikael's cousin Niklas Hed, who was 29 at the time, got the idea to start a gaming company in 2003 after he and two friends won a competition at the University of Helsinki to create a multiplayer mobile game on one of the very first Nokia smartphones.
Two researchers, Karthik Muralidharan of the University of California at San Diego and Venkatesh Sundararaman of the World Bank, tested that idea in 300 state-run schools in Andhra Pradesh in India.
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