Unless the orator calls in the aid of memory to retain the matter and the words with which thought and study have furnished him, all his other merits, however brilliant, we know will lose their effect.

FORBES: Debate II: Preparation Counts

As a schoolboy in Bavaria, he learned about the Greeks and the Romans, and thought he would study them when he grew up.

NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary

One of the study's co-authors, Robin Ejsmond-Frey, rowed for Oxford and thought it would be a good activity to study.

ECONOMIST: Exercise and company

But Robert Harrington, a well-known Duke University Medical Center cardiologist, thought that the good and bad results from the drug made the study neutral, meaning there was no clear benefit from the medicine.

FORBES: AtheroGenics: Promise And Peril

The study of art, they thought, should be direct and immersive.

NEWYORKER: Moving Pictures

In other words, the drug's dosage was too high, and further study might show it to be more effective than previously thought.

FORBES: Pharmaceuticals

Scotland's Parliament came close to adopting a 45p minimum last year (the proposal was voted down), and a much-discussed study in 2008 by academics at Sheffield University thought 50p was the lowest that should be contemplated.

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In 2007, an RHS study of young people aged between 13 and 18 found that 62% thought horticulture was another word for farming, while most said it was a career for "old or retired people".

BBC: Gardening image 'puts off young'

The breadth of the study and involvement of an independent foundation without a political bent on fracking is thought to be able to trump other, conflicting studies performed so far.

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The biggest risk in many of the current batch of deals is that the private-equity firms discover the cash-flow models to be less predictable than they thought, says Colin Blaydon of Tuck Business School's Centre for the Study of Private Equity and Entrepreneurship.

ECONOMIST: Media firms and private equity