So the company simply included Year 2000 compliance as part of its normal program of up-grades.

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Run on an eight-inch screen with a similar screen faceplate behind the steering wheel, the Cadillac User Experience allows touch-based feedback (see the demo in the video above), vibration-oriented lane departure warning and (finally) a recognition program that responds to normal spoken requests for directions or music.

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Percentage of students who began their studies in fall 2001 and transferred out within 150% of "normal time" for completion of their program.

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At the time that the ECB launched the loan program, many European banks were locked out of normal funding markets because of a crisis of confidence sweeping the euro zone.

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One such program, called the Warrior Stress Reset Program, is "designed to help address those common and normal reactions to war experiences, " says a military Web site.

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Yet some sense of normal life is returning, said Mia Marina, a program support manager for World Vision's Nargis response efforts.

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Next up is a scan on coordination of benefits through normal claims processing to look for cases when another state program or private insurance paid all or part of a claim.

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In a fraction of a second, the program traders can move the market, get in and out, and normal retail investors are left in the dust, suffering major losses before they even know what hit them.

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"I think unfortunately, 2012 really may well be the new normal, " said Daniel Lashof, director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental group.

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