Among the reasons for refusing the application, assembly government officials said Tesco had failed to "demonstrate safe and appropriate links for pedestrians and cyclists between the store and the town's central core at Heol Maengwyn".

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Most recently, the company has announced the "world's first application of self assembly used to create a vacuum around nanowires for next-generation microprocessors, " which just so happens to mimic the natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth.

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The application passed on to the Welsh Assembly Government in 2003, which will make a decision following the public inquiry.

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When I was in graduate school, I was taught that if high performance was required in a software application, it had to be written in an assembly language.

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It is possible assembly planners may also decide to call the application in.

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Sensible enough in concept, the definition is maddeningly vague in application, largely because it is based upon a 1974 General Assembly resolution that was aimed at guiding state conduct, not defining individual criminal liability.

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Wrexham assembly member Lesley Griffiths said she was "surprised" at the application, "particularly in light of the fact the public still do not know where the recent outbreak originated from".

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The decision not to block the application has been welcomed by Clwyd South AM, Ken Skates, who heads one of the assembly's committees on the future of media in Wales.

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