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CHICAGO UNIVERSITY'S Booth School of Business retains first place in The Economist's annual ranking of full-time MBA programmes.

Froome, who will lead Team Sky at this year's Tour de France, retains first place in the overall classification with American Andrew Talansky six seconds back, and Croatia's Robert Kiserlovski 13 seconds off the leader.

But, having been a lawyer before moving into private equity, he has taken care to protect the patents of the technology that powers his business so that he retains first-mover advantage.

Evans retains second place overall, 23 seconds behind the Spaniard and eight seconds ahead of Leipheimer.

Crutchlow – he and his Tech 3 team battered by a total of three crashes during the weekend – finished seventh, but retains sixth place in the championship table.

Wiggins lost time on the overall leaders but retains third place overall.

The method retains second-order accuracy without requiring a Richardson extrapolation.

First, we propose an exponential difference scheme that retains second-order accuracy in the presence of a source term or in multidimensional situations.

The budget of the National Cancer Institute, NIH's largest, will grow 13.5% to $3.76 billion, while the Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute retains second place with an identical boost, to $2.3 billion.

Scotland defeated Ukraine, 3-1, to retain first place in Group B and increase the likelihood that Italy or France will be missing from next year's tournament in Austria and Switzerland.

The Conservatives also want to reduce the size of the Commons, to 585, but to retain first past the post (FPTP).