Instead, the investigators said, the data was kept in a hashed form - in other words the telephone numbers were transformed into a short code and stored.

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There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.

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But when shareholders don't have the documents in hand, they seem to have a hard time walking the form and its special code to the computer, despite an envelope that was redesigned last year to add a large "vote" logo.

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While it's called a grant, the biotech credit is a variation of what Congress has been doing with individuals: Using the tax code and the Internal Revenue Service to deliver benefits it considers socially desirable in the form of refundable tax credits.

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Mr Sarkozy threatened to legislate to enforce these, but he has since accepted a form of self-regulation in the shape of a code of good governance for companies.

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The new Forest Code will probably end up in its current form, or something very close to it.

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The amount will be reported in Box 12, using code DD on your federal form W-2 for 2011 (form will download as pdf).

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Pulse-code modulation is simply a way of representing the analog electrical signal, in digital form.

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The Claims Conference, working with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, now presents each of the original ERR registration cards for over 20, 000 art objects in electronic form, listing Nazi ERR code numbers, artwork titles, artists, and detailed descriptions of each work.

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