Customs and Border Protection needs to adopt similar transparency, he said, in addition to committing to 30 minutes or less to process each arriving traveler and hiring an additional 1, 000 officers to make the entry process more efficient.

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In Japan, the government convened a national security meeting soon after the test was detected, and later announced additional sanctions against the North, including a widening of entry ban for pro-Pyongyang ethnic Korean residents.

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The high barriers to entry in the utility industry will also help fend off any additional competition.

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Additional economic factors, such as underemployment and graduates earning historically less in entry level jobs, puts homeownership on the back burner.

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U.S. officials also are asking scientists whether additional measures to screen for flu symptoms were needed at U.S. ports of entry, she said.

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Adding an additional indicator, such as the moving average convergence divergence (MACD), to time market entry and exit further improves returns.

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My seasonal strategy will give its re-entry sometime between October 16 and the end of November, depending on what the additional technical indicator I use says at the time.

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The ZTE Grand S represents the company's latest entry in a new era of smartphone design, which will continue in 2013 with the introduction of additional high-end smartphones.

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