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Are the buildings used for adult education, music groups or hired to local businesses? school governors to scrutinise is all procedures and policies, particularly admissions, that could expose the school to criticism.— Latest education news, including the university guide 2010, RAE results, higher and schools news, schools tables and further education | guardian.co.uk
That body could now be asked to scrutinise the handling of abuse allegations in Cloyne, where Bishop John Magee has come under increasing pressure to resign after a Catholic Church report found children had been left at risk of sex abuse.— Clerical Whispers
The USA can scrutinise the last 30 years of operation of the EPC, take what makes sense and disregard the rest, and I think Dennis, the USPTO and the CAFC sometimes look wistfully at Europe, but can't bring US opinion round to an open mind on borrowing good stuff from Europe.— Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
This, dear Quadrant, is why the essay is so wrong; it is precisely why we need the fourth estate principles to scrutinise the way these products and utopian claims are promoted in the name of 'science'.— PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
Leaving aside the reductionist nutritionism and blinkered agronomics, and leaving aside the health, social and environmental hazard potential of Golden Rice (not to mention other traditional non-GM crops that could do the trick), if Quadrant fails to see the absurdity of this argument, if it fails to scrutinise utopian claims of biotechnical 'solutions' to social, political and environmental problems, it's not alone.— PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All

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