Further, Wright pointed out, fund managers such as himself for the most part already put in extra homework to calculate at the same data as the new all-in costs anyway.

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Professors may well assign MOOCs as homework, for example, and then build on the information in them through more in-depth and interactive discussions in the classroom.

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Later this year NCS will add a Web module to allow parents free access to their child's homework assignments for the week ahead, as well as updates on skipped classes, tardies and whether Johnny got into a fistfight in the parking lot.

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So my hope and expectation is that, as a consequence of us doing our homework, we can explore with the parties a mechanism for them to sit back down, to get rid of some of the old assumptions, to think in new ways and to get this done.

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Classroom teachers can substitute these excellent lectures for their own, or, more likely, given the vanity factor, they can assign them as homework to supplement class lectures.

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After all, it is an investment bank that should have done its homework, especially when some pundits were predicting that the baht was heading for a tumble as early as 1996.

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