It will, of course, sell a Windows license for most of the 350 million PCs sold in this year, but that market is shrinking.

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To renew his ski instructor license in his alpine hometown of Martinszell, of course.

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And of course, you, the person signing the license application, you are responsible for anything going wrong.

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Similarly, when most students take a course in entrepreneurship, they either get a course on writing business plans or a course about the tactics of getting a business license and setting up operations.

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If, indeed, certain prayers could be shown to shorten the course of illness, would not American religious institutions rush to patent and license them, just as many of our (non-profit) universities have done with research on the human genome?

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In 2008, Connecticut became the first state to mandate that parents of 16- and 17-year-olds seeking a license take a two-hour training course.

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