Wonga says it has created a computer programme, called an "automatic risk decision engine", which collates data from lots of sources about applicants before deciding on whether to sanction a loan.

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Their owner Stephen Vaughan then allowed the financially struggling club to enter administration, a decision which ensured an automatic 10-point deduction.

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It was a decision not to allow an automatic tightening of policy.

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Our mental and emotional muscles are now so well developed, and dealing with complexity so familiar, that decision making becomes habitual, automatic, and often, as in my own case and that of the golfer, unconscious.

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The Department for Work and Pensions stressed that no decision has been taken yet but added that an automatic mechanism was being considered.

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Mr Sinha has promised an expanded list of industries for which there is automatic permission for foreign investment, and for other industries where a decision is promised within 30 days.

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The Treasury points out, however, that pump prices are still mainly above the level at the time of the Budget of 2011, when the chancellor took the decision to scrap the so-called fuel duty escalator which produced automatic above inflation duty rises.

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Reed had collected sufficient position to appeal the decision of the convention's rules committee to give all 165 members of the Republican National Committee automatic delegate slots at the 2004 convention.

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