To add insult to injury, the "30-day" processing time for a visa can turn into months.
This is one of the reasons why the average processing time for a patent is roughly three years.
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Screening procedures drew 1, 960 complaints since January 2010, and security checkpoint processing time got 2, 484 complaints since then.
Processing time Normal processing time for amended returns is 8 to 12 weeks.
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By contrast, the move to web sales has already saved Oracle tens of millions of dollars in sales and processing time, contributing to its record revenues and margins in recent quarters.
German insurance provider ERGO has built an in-house app for iPhone that thousands of agents use to process insurance claims, which has significantly reduced paper work and improved processing time and customer satisfaction.
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Sun Microsystems is betting big on utility computing, a new model that would make processing time available to businesses on demand, much in the same way they buy utilities like gas and electricity.
To achieve this, the company needed to run complex data mining models on a large volume of data, which took at least three weeks of processing time, even with a subset of the 2.8-petabyte data set.
Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
These findings have now been complemented by Dr Knight's project, which made use of climateprediction.net, a network of personal computers on which processing time is volunteered by members of the public, to compile 57, 000 different runs of a global-climate model developed at the Hadley Centre.
This contrasted with the batch processing or time-sharing models which allowed larger, more expensive minicomputer and mainframe systems to be used by many people, usually at the same time.
Palmer said rumors abound of Yahoo and Google releasing more real-time processing technologies for working in real-time with big data, and Streambase plans some specific product announcements in a month or so.
Trustbusters spend most of their time processing paperwork about deals between minnows rather than chasing big fish.
No telling if the map will be as sprawling as it was in the last title, as that would take significantly more processing power this time around.
The chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio told me that Lloyds is employing 6000 people full time on processing claims for PPI compensation, of which 1000 spend all their time dealing with false claims.
This will reduce the time for processing fixed penalty tickets from one week to a few hours.
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The bank gets so many legal orders 5, 000 a week in total that it has two centres that work full-time on processing them, one on the west coast, one on the east.
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Even if universal detention cut the inflow by half and even if the time for processing their applications was also cut by half both questionable assumptions more than 25, 000 prison places would be required.
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The use of highly standardized and virtualized commodity infrastructure, not only make the automation of this function possible, but it enables real-time continuous processing of the now digital document flow of our adversaries.
Some of the topics raised by the members' expenses committee have been raised with him before - including the cost of processing claims, a comparison of costs with the previous expenses system and the amount of time MPs were spending processing claims.
The key to this is being able to intellectualize your answers while thinking and at the same time re-processing your answers into colorful sound bites.
Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex data processing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.
As you'll see in the video below, with 11 streams of 1080p video at 30 fps in Premiere Pro (and one overlay of the NVIDIA logo), GPU acceleration handles the workload seamlessly, letting us add effects in real time without any processing delay.
But new deposits and mines, not to mention processing facilities, will take significant time to develop and open.
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Washington interns do much of the phone-answering and mail-processing chores that await first-time jobholders in offices across the land.
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The salesforce spent much of its time negotiating deals and processing order paperwork.
Large data processing systems require a full-time staff to operate efficiently.
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