Anders Hultin of Kunskapsskolan, a chain of 26 Swedish schools founded by a venture capitalist in 1999 and now running at a profit, says its schools only rarely have to invoke the first-come-first-served rule the chain has responded to demand by expanding so fast that parents keen to send their children to its schools usually get a place.

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Although Roche is delivering the drug on a first-come-first-served basis, there have been some notable exceptions to this rule: the company was quick to send tens of thousands of packs to Indonesia, Turkey and Romania during their recent outbreaks.

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She grew up in the Blue House and served as her father's first lady for the last five years of his rule, after her mother was killed in 1974 by an assassin who said he was sent by North Korea.

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