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Primary and secondary schools spent about £2.6bn on administrative staff, administrative supplies and bought-in professional services.
Struggling schools could be taken over by super-heads, says Michael Gove 2011
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One, which has contemporary resonance, is that there is little new in current concern over a Liverpool squad almost entirely composed of bought-in talent.
Red Men: Liverpool Football Club, the Biography by John Williams 2010
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I would have to say, with all due respect sir, that if you really have bought-in to all the politically-motivated NCLB claptrap, then I wish all YOUR children to be thoroughly educated in multiple-choice-type thinking and little else.
FairTest's Open Letter to the President-Elect Jim Horn 2009
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You bought-in to her brand of campaign, now YOU can pay for it.
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Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell today wrote to the head of every Government department suggesting they should replace bought-in bottled water with tap water for all meetings in future.
Archive 2008-03-01 Thatsnews 2008
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But we have to engage and get them involved and bought-in into dealing with some of these transnational problems.
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But, following a sale, deals are made quietly by all parties: Consignors of bought-in lots, especially those with reserve prices, may owe the auctioneer money -- called a "buyback" -- for various fees, such as for catalog photography, outside expertise, insurance and shipping.
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In addition, in May 2006, self-regulatory organizations adopted SEC guidance that any shares bought-in by a broker to satisfy undelivered shorted shares must be applied to the earliest undelivered shorts.
Covering Up Naked Shorts Harvey Pitt 2006
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This essentially requires brokers to buy-in all shares they've failed to deliver once any shares must be bought-in.
Covering Up Naked Shorts Harvey Pitt 2006
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One of the many roads to improvement will be reducing bought-in parts.
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