• Living is at nearly every level a joint activity and there is minimal queue-jumping.

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  • Whatever hawker centre you visit, to enjoy the best food find the stall with the longest queue - and join it.

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  • 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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  • Those who seek "merit-based" naturalization -- jumping ahead of the queue -- would get points for "civic involvement" if they had engaged in a significant amount of community service.

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  • People might not feel so bad about waiting for treatment if they had a definite date for admission, and knew they were not being queue-jumped by less urgent cases.

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  • Britons can tolerate competition, but they cannot abide queue-jumpers.

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  • Again and yet again the voice says you are at the head of the queue - by now you have spilt your coffee and the cat has been kicked away from under the table.

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  • Now again, I know that queue-jumping happens everywhere, and the ice-cream girl might have just been having an off day, and that none of these incidents prove a thing, but it did get me thinking.

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  • Removing any doubt as to the level of commitment it has to the iDEN network in the wake of the Nextel acquisition by Sprint PCS, Motorola has two groundbreaking iDEN phones in the queue - the OVER and the NEVR.

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  • Inside, it's a little more tense, as lines of students queue up - financial aid applications in hand - to negotiate how they're going to pay for their education.

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  • This money will most likely be allocated over a five-year period with the club's more than 400 "trade creditors" - local businesses, charities and other suppliers - at the back of the queue behind so-called "football creditors", who must be repaid in full under football's rules.

    BBC: PFA boss Taylor says Pompey misled players over wages

  • The ins-and-outs of the dole-queue data suggest the trouble is that hiring has slowed, not that lay-offs have sped up.

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  • The Blu-ray Disc Association fired back to this blow after a few mixed retailer wins with Blockbuster, Target and BJ's by noting the strong supply of Blu-ray titles in the queue and the planned Blu-ray release of Disney's "platinum" titles, the crown jewels of the Magic Kingdom.

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  • The busiest part of the tent, however, was the queue for forensic-science research into fingerprints.

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  • In theory, there is a long queue of coal-fired power stations waiting to be built in America.

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  • The poor still queue for government-subsidised bread and must scrimp and save to buy a pair of shoes.

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  • But this being India, no one seems to care, including the forest ranger who is directing the queue of tourist-filled trucks waiting to view the pride.

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  • Clearly taking a cue from Cupertino's own iTunes app on the tiny media box, the Hulu Plus redesign makes perfect use of a top navigation bar, which, as pictured above, lists familiar entries like TV, Movies, Kids, Latino, Queue and Search -- a nice visual (and useful) change when compared to what we've been become accustomed to since the app first arrived on the "hobby" platform.

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  • Public-opinion surveys have shown that a queue is regarded as the least-worst way to deal with non-urgent cases given the finite resources of a publicly funded health service.

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  • There is always a queue outside the well-known Italian chain GROM, but a less commercial option is Perche No!

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  • Adults queue at the gold-enamelled display counters like kids at a sweetshop.

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  • His quick work put HP, perhaps the largest buyer of computer components in the world, at the head of the queue for the suddenly-scarce parts.

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  • With support in Congress for extending these successful loan enhancements, we started the Recovery Loan Queue, a stand-by list just like at the airport.

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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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  • Traffic Wales says there is a five-mile queue of traffic waiting to leave the M4 to use the diversions with vehicles backing up to Cardiff Gate, J30.

    BBC: Queuing traffic on the M4 between J28-29 on Friday morning

  • Traffic Wales said during the closure there was a five-mile queue of traffic waiting to leave the M4 to use the diversions with vehicles backing up to Cardiff Gate, J30.

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  • Subscribers, particularly in big cities, are often tormented by slow Internet access and dropped calls. 3G mobile Internet has turned into one big traffic jam, with new cars joining the queue at an ever-increasing rate.

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  • The summer months see Times Square overrun by visitors all scrambling for their "I Heart NYC" t-shirt and matching sun visor, while the Empire State Building's elevator queue can, through the heat-haze, seem to extend as far, horizontally, as the iconic building stretches for the skies.

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  • The latest fad among emerging-market bond investors, eager to get a piece of the action, is to queue up for bonds with 100-year maturities, such as those issued by the Chinese government and Tenaga Nasional, a Malaysian electrical utility.

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  • Upon arrival make sure you join the queue for a delectable country-style bacon and egg roll.

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