Because the less academically inclined can too easily fall into low paid, unskilled jobs- or languish on the dole queue - vocational training would be revamped.

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"The problem is, in town - now that the buses are on strike - there's a very long queue, " she says.

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Drawn in by easy-to-digest prices and a traditional take on fish and chips, cabbies are known to queue up here for thick slices of fresh cod, fried skin-on in beef fat.

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He says that we should not always assume that organisations are working to cut down on queues - and in the case of airlines, the queue, or the promise of a lack of it, can be used as a way of selling products such as first class tickets.

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This margin depends on the size and speed of an aircraft, and re-ordering the queue can minimise the delay before all the planes get into the air (mathematicians call this the departure problem).

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At one point, the northbound A19 at Sheraton, near Hartlepool, had an eight-mile queue of traffic because of delays caused by standing water on the road.

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An easy-to-navigate menu lets you queue units or call in reinforcements from anywhere on the map, and building your bases and commanding your soldiers is as easy as pointing and clicking the mouse (you'll need to use a few keyboard commands, as well).

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Private-sector firms with plants coming on line often assume they will be last in the queue for domestic fuel.

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For flight details, join the queue of journalists, chancers and do-gooders clustered outside the Afghan embassy on Bakhtar Street, Dushanbe.

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Air-traffic controllers have always reordered planes in the departure queue manually, but researchers are working on algorithms that would be more efficient.

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