John Bangs, assistant secretary for the National Union of Teachers, said the union was not worried about the rise in applications for special considerations.

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Since April 2008, it received 578 applications for the special payments from NHS trusts in England, rejecting 171 or 30%.

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Outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair confirmed to the Commons last June that applications were being invited for the special badge.

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The intelligent stylus also features a special LED light that app developers can utilize for various applications.

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Instead of sprawls of special-purpose computer servers--one for Internet applications, one for e-mail and so on--a virtualized system uses one machine to do all of these functions.

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Once this network is under construction, there will be a need for many different types of applications to be written to meet the special needs of the Public Safety community and most of these applications will be written by smaller developers who want to expand their client base.

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The civil unrest of the previous decade had finally settled down, the student body was growing larger and more diverse, the university had changed its applications process to a double-blind procedure with no special consideration for gender, race, or ethnicity, and research in medicine and the physical sciences shared space in the curriculum with philosophy and art.

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On that day, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is scheduled to start accepting applications for the limited supply of H-1B visas, which allow businesses to employ foreign workers with special skills such as teachers, scientists and computer programmers for an initial period of up to three years.

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