The UK government has announced an extra 10, 000 places on some courses but with an additional 40, 000 applications to universities across the UK this year the system has never been under greater pressure.
The Republicans, for some unknown reason, decided to pass on fully emulating that system year.
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The current eight-year-old system runs from green, signifying a low threat, to red, meaning severe.
The legislation will create a national body, the Scottish Children's Hearings Tribunal to oversee the 40-year-old system, presently run by councils.
Shadow communities and local government minister Jack Dromey said the government had ripped up a 60-year-old system that struck a balance between growth and protecting the environment.
And of course, for all you early adopters, the time to buy is always now -- through the end of the year, the system comes with a free game of your choice as well.
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This could include the number of vulnerabilities development groups are introducing into your websites every month, the speed at which issues that do slip through QA are fixed or how many days of the year a particular system is exposed to something serious.
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It's not clear at this point why a year-old system is being stifled by this seemingly arbitrary restriction, but with the PlayStation 3 offering developers Bluetooth out of the box, it seems that Microsoft either needs to change its tune or risk losing the small-but-vocal "rocker wannabe" demographic to the enemy.
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"By providing this protection we avoid the risk, however small, that some students will choose to forego a gap year in 2005 and thus place extra pressure on places in the higher education system for the year, " he said.
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By and large, businesses welcomed this tidying up, even though they will pay more tax during a four-year transition to a new system of payment, under which big firms will pay tax quarterly on a current-year basis, rather than in arrears as now.
Like last year, when the new Mac operating system was front and center, this year's announcement focuses more on software (you know, the stuff developers actually work with) than teasing a new product.
In the US, more than 270 million people visit the national parks system each year.
Arbitron officials tested the system last year in Philadelphia and are conducting another test in Houston.
Microsoft is getting ready to finally launch its long-delayed new Longhorn operating system next year.
After numerous delays, RIM finally came out with a modern operating system this year, the BlackBerry 10.
Last year, the new system was given a trial run in the capital's satellite town of Huairou.
If everything goes well, they say, they could begin rolling out the system next year, starting in Houston.
But the one thing almost all of us have in common is our dependence on our 108-year-old subway system.
John Bangs of the National Union of Teachers has warned of "enormous" numbers of errors in the system this year.
Broadcasting play thwarted last year when Tokyo Broadcasting System, in which he has 20% stake, reorganized itself under a holding company.
In the next year the Federal Reserve System is widely expected to increase the rate banks can charge each other for loans.
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Changes to the student-visa system this year have left thousands of foreign students stranded at home and as angry as wet cats.
Travelers hope the merger goes better than the United-Continental combination, which has stumbled amid operational problems and a year of computer-system woes.
The consensus estimate is 32 cents per share, up 6.7% from a year ago when Total System reported earnings of 30 cents per share.
The consensus estimate is 33 cents per share, up 6.5% from a year ago when Total System reported earnings of 31 cents per share.
Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco's boss, said last year that the monitoring system had reduced waiting time for customers and helped to boost the firm's profits.
Tennessee rolled out a system this year that ties most teacher evaluations, even those in subjects like music and gym, to schoolwide math and reading scores.
We completed our Caffeine web indexing system last year, which allows us to crawl and index the web for fresh content quickly on an enormous scale.
His comments come as President Obama is pressing Congress to push through a comprehensive bill to reform the nation's ailing health care system this year.
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