Recent reports indicate Korean men have fully embraced feminine beauty rituals which includes the application of foundation, rouge and even lipstick.

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"For decades now, Ethernet has provided the flexible connectivity foundation on which application innovation and the bandwidth explosion have been based, " said Brad Smith, senior vice president and chief analyst at LightCounting.com, an optical transceiver and high-speed interconnect market research firm.

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At the very least, there was the basic four page Uniform Residential Loan Application (Form 1003) that was the foundation and the starting point for ALL mortgage loans.

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"There are some advantages to being an application, " said Parker Higgins of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that promotes digital rights.

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Funded by Sequoia, Norwest, Foundation Capital and others, the company offers an application that people can download to their personal devices, and create a secured area for business stuff.

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My favorite current application of Fisher's principles, supported through the Atlas Economic Research Foundation , is the work of James Shikwati, a young Kenyan trying, with his Inter Region Economic Network in Nairobi, to help that fledgling democracy and other African nations escape one of the 20th century's most tragic political failures.

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"Similar technologies are limited by cost of materials, use of noxious chemicals in the application or loss of effectiveness after a few washings, " said Gennaro Gama from the University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF).

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