In a statement the GDC said nothing in Ms Van Drie's application for permission to practice in Britain had raised any concern.

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Of course it wasn't, and as 2am approached I had already pencilled in my application to be a dustman - a practice I always went through in such circumstances.

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In its application, ABA Retirement said it "promotes high standards of practice in the legal profession, " likening its activities to tax-exempt organizations that set standards for products or make recommendations to federal agencies.

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Consider, for example, the case of an employee at Company A, who conceives an invention in May, works diligently to reduce it to practice, and files the corresponding patent application in August.

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However, given the uncertainty regarding the accuracy of the data, and the inability to validate the collection of data, readers should be cautioned in the application of the findings of these manuscripts to clinical practice.

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These include such things as the practice in some non-selective schools of not considering an application if the parents had also put a grammar school as one of their choices.

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