But even America, which was last to sign up to any form of austerity, is on some kind of deficit-reduction track.

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Companies with fewer than 30 employees can sign up for the opportunity by filling out a form here.

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This classification is typically in the form of requesters asking you to sign up for services, register for events, click to sites, send email or notifications to others, and other actions to pad numbers of registrations or directly spam information.

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But what should form the basic structure to which all must sign up?

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Four years from now, another candidate (or two) will likely ask you to sign up for some type of list, be it in app form or something else, to learn the identity of their running mate.

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She plans to acquire electronic rights to backlists, sign up new authors (with fifty-per-cent profit-sharing), and form a self-publishing division.

NEWYORKER: Publish or Perish

And I knew few patients who had chosen it, except maybe in their very last few days, because they had to sign a form indicating that they understood their disease was incurable and that they were giving up on medical care to stop it.

NEWYORKER: Letting Go