Not being connected to the mainstream financial system can create hardships for people, said DCA Commissioner Jonathan Mintz.
The FDIC says one in four (28.3%) of all U.S. households conduct some or all of their financial transactions outside of the mainstream banking system.
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With approximately 30 million additional people entering the mainstream healthcare system with health care reform (from the Affordable Care Act), time with patients will likely become even more limited.
One of the priority sub-programmes of ETSIP highlights the need to mainstream ICT into the education system.
The ILF was established in 1988, but the government decided in 2010 that it had become "no longer appropriate or sustainable" to keep running the scheme outside the mainstream social care system.
And we said that the trillion dollar question is when is our mainstream education system going to adapt to the needs of our post-modern society?
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Pakistan has a first-past-the-post system, so people vote for one of the mainstream parties that have the best chance of coming to power.
The defense acquisition system thus diminishes economies of scale and isolates military products from the mainstream of industrial innovation, largely precluding cross-fertilization between the defense and commercial sectors.
No word yet on when this system could make its way to the mainstream, but we'll be waiting with bated breath.
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Throughout the presidential campaign, Moussavi labored hard to portray his proposals on social policy and foreign affairs as an extension of the Islamic system in order to disarm conservative critics, even denying that he is a mainstream reformist candidate in the hope of winning the support of reformers and moderate conservatives.
Even OS X, the Mac's newest operating system, is based on a Unix computing approach only now hitting mainstream PC users through the migration of Linux to the desktop.
Linux was chosen by the NSA because its open-development environment provided an opportunity to demonstrate that the security functionality added by SELinux can be successful in a mainstream operating system.
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But whether any government or mainstream politician is really prepared to step back, and let the system "heal itself" - whatever the short-term consequences - is another matter.
Nintendo started the mainstream push into glasses free (autostereoscopic) 3D gaming with its Nintendo 3DS system earlier this year.
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And even the programmer concerned said that users of Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system, which is irrevocably integrated with Passport as a means of forcing it into the mainstream, would not have been affected.
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