Mark Robins of the small-cap research firm Robins Group also suggested Glassman could be making the offer to relieve himself of outside influence.

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In fact, I, as the director of a small free market health insurance research and advocacy group at the time, received some pressure to tone down our objections to ObamaCare.

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In the summer of 1998, a group of executives from a small technology startup named Research in Motion arrived at the California offices of Lexicon, a firm devoted to inventing names for products.

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The programme rewards a small group of pupils for undertaking a piece of excellent science research or engineering.

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Research was carried out in the US on a small study group who complained of sudden "explosive" headaches.

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"The leasing idea seems ideal for local city councils and governmental departments running small fleets, " says Andrew Fullbrook, a senior manager at automotive research group CSM Worldwide.

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But the EDI system requires proprietary software and private networks which most small Asian manufacturers can't afford, says Joe Sweeney, research director in Hong Kong for the Gartner Group.

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