So Greece is no longer the front line of a global financial crisis: Spain - indeed the entire European banking system - is the front line.

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In fact, both Australia and Canada use a point system to put the most-qualified immigrants at the front of the line, plans that the United States can and should emulate.

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It turned out that the programmer who had built the link between the front-end sales system and the back-end inventory system had somehow managed to duplicate a line of code.

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Priority boarding is also a big draw, because Southwest's chaotic no-assigned-seats system can be a turnoff for travellers unwilling to push to the front of the line or throw a few elbows for a window (or aisle) seat.

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