The answers to what experience customers value most or what type of relationship they want with their vendors will never be found in Salesforce.com, Marketo or Eloqua, on Twitter, in some Big Data application, or via email.
Last year the local government ombudsman told Guru Nanak Sikh secondary in Hayes, Middlesex, to change its procedures after hearing some parents had sent in cheques with their application forms in the - mistaken - belief they would serve as a show of support.
There had been some progress in "registration and application of the EVAW law, " the report said, referring to the 2009 law on Elimination of Violence Against Women.
"If and when we re-orientate our cricket square, which is all tied up in our planning application, then some of, if not all of, our four-day games will be played away from Old Trafford so all our outgrounds come into focus then, " added Cumbes.
It may not be long before some proverbial teenager in a garage invents the next killer application, and gives the industry back at least some of its legendary buzz.
Not that anyone should rely entirely upon a map of any sort of course, but mistakes in the Apple Maps application in iOS6 do seem to pose perhaps more danger than some other such mistakes.
In some cases, the system reportedly led buyers to believe they had been successful in their application, only to find out by email in June 2011 that they had failed.
In order to accept the nomination I needed to sign some papers, send a headshot, revise some pieces of my application, and get a lot of stuff in order and do it all before 11pm on the first day that Baby K was home.
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The company previously said there had been a "slight delay" in the finalisation of the Belfast planning application due to the increased size of the proposed store and some unexpected delays in the preliminary site investigation process.
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In some cases, the expiration date for the scholarship application had already passed.
Frank Barnaby, a respected nuclear physicist and weapons expert, says that a version of the compound with some military application may have been developed in the Soviet Union.
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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Some parents say they are refusing to participate in the application frenzy.
Birmingham and Newcastle universities allow students at some poorly performing state schools to fill in a second application form, describing their difficult circumstances.
Should it turn down a customer's application for a loan, Tesco may in some cases send grocery vouchers along with the rejection letter.
Because all-in-one application suites can be expensive and lack functionality for some critical areas of the business, they are often unappealing to growing businesses.
In other words, pick some small, and fairly risk-free, application and try it out.
The Skydog router and the initial application are complete, with some first production units already in stock.
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Since the Russian application, 49 others have followed, some making multiple claims in several places, some submitted jointly by several countries in one area.
In theory, that approach sounds great: buy point-solution apps from a variety of cloud-application vendors in the hopes of obtaining attractive pricing along with perhaps some best of breed technologies.
Some key background: In May 2003, Paddock filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with FDA for approval of a generic version of AndroGel, as did another generic producer, Watson Pharmaceutical.
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Hillary Clinton, America's secretary of state, and some of her European counterparts have spoken about the selective application of justice in Russia.
Juniper has also opened up its application programing interfaces to 70 outside developers, in the hopes of generating some new ideas around network efficiency and functionality.
At the least, the union should be able to wrangle some concessions about the Tag, making its application less of a hammer in allowing teams to go year-to-year with players.
In somewhat related news, Apple has also recently filed a patent application that would bring some fairly extensive new speech recognition options to the iPhone -- if it ever actually moves beyond a patent application, that is.
Some of the most disaffected developers were those who specialized in Qt, a cross-platform application and user interface framework that Nokia acquired in 2008.
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"I spoke to some relevant people on Sandwell Council and everybody I spoke to was in favour of supporting any application that could be made for speedway, " Councillor Shackleton told supporters attending BBC WM's West Midlands Speedway Forum.
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Its decisions are changing the mortgage application and foreclosure process, the way people lodge complaints against financial companies and, in some cases, what fees they can charge.
In fact, the focused and flexible application of resources to achieve the greatest impact has been around for some time for both good and bad.
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The DCMS said in a statement that Mr Purnell had "always acknowledged that the new licensing application process may seem daunting to some".
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