Many poor residents have applied for public housing but face years of waiting.

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Applied Materials (AMAT) is expected to report poor first quarter earnings on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 with analysts expecting a 83.3% drop in earnings from a year ago.

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Second, although the amount (weight) of herbicides applied has increased in recent years, that parameter is a poor measure of impacts on human health or the natural environment.

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When the program was announced last year, poor families across the country responded overwhelmingly: More than 1.2 million applied for the 40, 000 four-year scholarships for students from low-income families.

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Extensive financial rigor was applied to Sears to improve the profitability of every line item, dropping poor performers and closing low margin stores.

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When defining the poor proved tricky, this was dropped in favour of blanket transfers to any family that applied for them.

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He then applied for bail in the Supreme Court, saying that he was 80 and in poor health.

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The charter, the first of its type applied to cancer patients, urges doctors to attempt to close the gaps in treatment between rich and poor countries, strengthening cooperation between scientists in different countries.

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