"You really have to sell them on the importance of pre-K and kindergarten: It's not what is used to be, " said John Crabbe, the Buffalo school district's attendance services supervisor.

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South Korea's financial supervisor, the Financial Services Commission, began considering HSBC's application to acquire KEB only in late July, even though HSBC filed the application more than six months ago.

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"Up until that point, every computer was one of a kind, " says George Gray, a systems programming supervisor at the Georgia Department of Administrative Services, who also writes a Univac newsletter.

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Michael Chatman, the supervisor in the federal courts' Pretrial Services Office who filed a petition Dec. 4 stating that Snipes had traveled to Dubai "without permission of the court, " declined to say how Snipes' unauthorized trip was brought to his attention.

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But the about-turn on three-month money made it look inconsistent, and the Northern Rock affair has damaged its public standing, even if the government and the Financial Services Authority, Britain's banking supervisor, were also at fault.

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"That is much higher than other agencies, " said Paulette Caswell, adoption and permanency supervisor for the state's Department of Social and Health Services.

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Kimberly Kesling, deputy commander of Clinical Services for Darnell Medical Center at Fort Hood and Hasan's supervisor at the post, told reporters last week that Hasan was doing a good job in Texas.

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