But banking sources tell me it is highly improbable that - in these risk-averse times - the FSA will give a guarantee that NBNK would receive advanced status on any set timetable.

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The DREAM Act would have conferred permanent-resident status on roughly the same set of immigrants that DACA covers.

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Swiping repeatedly left or right cycles through all three views, while tapping the status bar on top allows you to set profiles (silent, beep, or ringing), adjust the volume, select connections and change your online status.

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NHS. Next April, 10-12 hospitals among those already achieving the three-star score on the hospital rating system look set to achieve foundation status.

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If one of your goals is to be more active in social media, use this time to set reminders for yourself on a weekly basis for when you will update your status or check on your profiles.

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Organized labor continues to rely on a model of using friendly politicians to set rules that maintain the status quo.

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But this mysterious quality, status, has bewildered, and irritated, many Japanese manufacturers who set out to take on the world.

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An oversight in the recent Health and Social Care Act is set to alter this status quo, however, and remove the requirement for STI Clinics to hold their data on separate stand alone systems.

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In this experiment, participants were asked to rate or judge another consumer on several attributes, including status, after this consumer selected the largest option within a set of food and drinks including pizza, coffee and smoothies, compared to a medium or a small one.

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