Economics is not a game or an academic exercise, in that view.

Posing such questions may be no more than an academic exercise.

But this is not going to be an academic exercise.

Paul asked, as if this were just some sort of academic exercise.

"But I run to win and not as an academic exercise."

After all, the affair was no longer an academic exercise.

Of course, a restaurant is much more than an academic exercise.

And with no plans to go back to the moon, it all seemed like an academic exercise.

In my view, we should be very careful that this does not become an academic exercise.

Still, the tensions are for her more than an academic exercise.