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...obtain approval from Washington. It sent its plan within the statutory deadline and received a response from federal officials, who asked the usual large number of questions. But instead of a prompt follow-up, Bush's regulators waited nearly a year to submit a revised version. Another volley of paperwork continued until August 1997, when Congress passed the CHIP program, overtaking the state plan. But even then, Bush took his time to start up CHIP, although the program requires less of a state contribution than Medicaid (25 percent versus 40 percent). When CHIP finally did start, last May, a total...
Cambridge resident Mario Davila, for instance, immigrated from El Salvador 17 years ago. He says that a backlog of paperwork has left him waiting 15 years for citizenship. All the while, he says he has waited for the chance to vote in school committee elections...
...offense is serious enough to merit court action, the Ad Board will usually delay its decision to avoid creating paperwork the court could subpoena, says Cabot House senior tutor Robert H. Neugeboren...
...that easy. The amount of paperwork alone is frightening. Submit to a polygraph. Say how many times you've smoked pot. Give the agency permission to talk to basically everyone who has ever known you, including your mother, your neighbors, your ex and possibly your pets. Let them test your hearing and urine. Read No. 8 under "Minimum Qualifications" on the application checklist: "I am willing and able to engage in strenuous and potentially dangerous duties to include, but not limited to, the use of firearms, participation in raids, arrests and/or the use of defensive tactics...
...first-invention rule"--awarding the patent to whoever comes up with the idea, regardless of when that person files an application--Japan uses the "first-application rule." So if an inventor's firm delays submitting an application, the researcher could be trumped by a competing company with more efficient paperwork...