The Ucas spokesman stressed that the December sampling point was a few days before the end of term for many schools and suggested that many applications would have come in after that.

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IRI, which describes itself as nonpartisan organization promoting democracy worldwide, spoke in person to 3, 485 Pakistanis and its poll, released Monday, has a 1.7-percentage-point sampling error.

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TFT, which says its mission is to find out why people support terrorism in an effort to build successful counter-terror policies, spoke in person to 1, 157 Pakistanis and its poll, released over the weekend, has a 3-percent-point sampling error.

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Apple Stores are a mix of showroom, marketing lab, sampling station and social connecting point.

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The 5-point rise is within the poll's sampling error.

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Romney campaigned Thursday in Florida, where two nonpartisan live operator polls conducted over the past two weeks both indicate Obama has a five-point advantage, which is within the surveys' sampling errors.

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