She had to get her driver's license early so she could run errands and do the shopping.

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What caused us to be a success was that very early on we didn't just license patents, we enabled the manufacturers to get to market quickly.

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But if the NTIA follows the recommendations of the advisory board the FCC will face stiff pressure to delay or cancel the provisional license it granted LightSquared to operate early last year.

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Nobody needs to lose their license because you want your refund a few days early.

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"We are not in a position to respond until we receive the actual license conditions for review, " which may happen in early June, Alan Soon, Yahoo's Singapore country manager, said in a statement.

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Early that year Abacha's petroleum minister, Dauzia Loya Etete, awarded himself a license to develop OPL 245 and set up Malabu as the license holder. (Though technically not an owner, Etete is widely believed to control Malabu.) After Abacha's dictatorship collapsed, the civilian administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo set up a panel to review oil licenses and revoked a number of them.

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's MIPS is using a license model like ARM, and MIPS-powered smartphones are expected to be ready early in 2011.

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Another case, set to go to trial in Las Vegas in early 2009, alleges an oral contract promised three fixers 5% of the Macau operations for helping find a license partner.

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