This was our standard sign of greeting or approval we pointed.

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The apparent hack attack follows the approval of a new standard for deep packet inspection by a meeting last month of the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly.

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Since the Coalition now needs a seal of approval for the revised standard version of their bill from those who had qualms about the original, her public support would be a valuable prize.

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The traditional procedure would have been to first conduct larger trials in several hundred patients comparing the experimental drug to standard treatment, and only then to seek approval.

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Under standard protocol, the Justice Department is supposed to get formal approval from the U.K. before meeting with British citizens in the U.K. In this case, the Justice Department requested to meet with Mr. Hayes, laying out the planned criminal case against him.

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Without approval, we don't expect to see any standard apps with the API built-in, however with the headset's current wide open nature, we assume interested hackers will be able to get the software running if they so desire.

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The increasingly mighty company has managed to secure leases without standard revenue-sharing provisions and has flown through some lengthy public-approval systems.

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The wireframe or prototype then can be exported as industry standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and shared in popular browsers for immediate review and approval.

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To be sure, Obama has been battered by a series of struggles, starting with the economy, but including a series of events that were at least initially beyond his control -- from the Gulf oil disaster to a Republican minority that by any objective standard has tried to block him at every single turn -- and dragged down his approval ratings.

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