When Anita Attridge worked in human resources at Merck and Xerox, she frequently kicked off job interviews with a standard request: Tell me about yourself.

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Written in SBOL, an open-source language popular with the synthetic-biology crowd, it seemed like a standard vaccine request.

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Levine had overturned an earlier preemption standard, and that its request for input from the solicitor general on another case involving Wyeth Pharmaceuticals drug Reglan in May suggested it was still looking at the issue of preemption in a broad light.

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For some types of work, especially involving children and vulnerable adults, an employer may request an enhanced or standard CRB check.

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Currently, Chrome follows standard industry practices to resolve Web addresses: Chrome sends a request to the underlying operating system which reaches out to another computer on the Internet known as a DNS server.

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In a huge win for backers of biofuels, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today denied a closely watched request to grant Texas a 50% waiver from a federal renewable fuel standard mandate.

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The Bank of England, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Standard Chartered, the Bank of Nova Scotia, all of them recently got a request from Chavez asking that the gold he has stored with them be shipped home.

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Surgeons say many patients request the full-bodied mustache worn by Turkish singer Ibrahim Tatlises, which has long set the standard for top-drawer whiskers.

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