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  • A couple years ago, the UK commissioned a detailed report on the question of copyright extension, known as the Gowers Report -- which clearly recommended against extending copyright on performance rights.

    Techdirt 2009

  • This may mean testing out various possible accents for comprehensibility to the linguistically naïve — perhaps playing recordings of different possible "Gowers" to some random selection of museum visitors or the like, in order to find the earliest one that they can understand when they hear it?

    On new branches of applied linguistics DC 2007

  • The emphasis is on grammatical logic – see the quote by Gowers, above, for examples.

    How to use quotation marks 2009

  • BP spokesman Andrew Gowers denied BP had changed its stance on the disaster.

    BP Slams Oil-Spill Critics James Herron 2010

  • The emphasis is on grammatical logic – see the quote by Gowers, above, for examples.

    February « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

  • In The Complete Plain Words, for example, Ernest Gowers stresses that their “useful differentiation should not be blurred by the use of one for the other”.

    June « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

  • Polly Gowers is chief executive of EveryclickThis content is brought to you by Guardian Professional.

    A charitable Christmas for 2011? The future looks bleak 2011

  • "We're determined to leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of our focus on safety," added spokesman Andrew Gowers.

    BP Links Pay to Safety in Fourth Quarter Guy Chazan 2010

  • Since the spill, BP has changed its position on the MMS proposal, BP spokesman Andrew Gowers said.

    Oil companies fought stricter regulations 2010

  • Gowers Review of Intellectual Property (Dec. 2006) (this is a document focusing on IP in the UK and Europe, but Chapters 1 and 2 provide a useful summary introduction to some of the relevant IP policy issues)

    Discourse.net: Bailouts 2009

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