He said all opposition parties had "welcomed in principle" a switch to independent regulation.

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The information also shows that there were 179 applications from independent schools planning to switch over to the state sector and become free schools.

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New Hampshire has an open primary: Voters can go into a polling place independent, or undeclared, and switch to a party to vote, then re-register as an independent when they leave.

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The Independent, which pioneered the switch to compact and soon abandoned its broadsheet version, has been rewarded with a sales increase of over 20 per cent.

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He also said he had no immediate plans to switch to being an independent.

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This would allow time for an independent review of the first phase of the switch to be carried out in 2014.

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Now that Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the last two remaining big independent Wall Street firms, have converted to bank holding companies, a legal switch that placed them under the regulatory authority of the Federal Reserve, Mack insists that proper supervision is in place.

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