Moreover, the law might indeed require firms to hire the best qualified applicant, meaning the one best able to perform the role being filled, even if hiring the best qualified in this sense would not be profit-maximizing, due to recalcitrant consumer prejudice.
Universal suggests a maximum of 500 words; the Common Application asks for a minimum of 250 words, meaning applicants with a lot to say could conceivably write more than 500 words on that form.
If the public apply for more shares than are available, they will be "scaled back", meaning applicants will be unable to buy all the shares they have applied for; big applications will be scaled back at a greater rate than small applications.
Among the report's recommendations was that universities make "greater use of contextual data to inform offer making", meaning applicants' social and economic family backgrounds be used to adjust admissions offers, and to identify groups or regions that find it more difficult to gain access.
The application for Medicaid is self-authenticating, meaning that applicants do not have to provide verifying documents, prosecutors said.
(This includes 10,000 applicants and school designers, meaning individuals who both submitted full applications and those who participated in the design process).
In the fall, the site will expand to include all new affordable housing development projects in the city, meaning that applicants will be able to create an online application, then submit that application to any new affordable housing lottery in New York with the click of a button.
In addition, 5,020 of these were late applicants - meaning they could have decided to change their minds after Chancellor George Osborne's budget decision to scrap maintenance grants.
"When they call up my Web site," she said, meaning potential applicants, "they see what they're getting into.
Six American colleges and universities — Amherst in Massachusetts, Dartmouth in New Hampshire, Harvard, M.I.T, Princeton and Yale — assess international students on a need-blind basis, meaning that applicants are considered irrespective of their ability to pay tuition, with financial aid awarded purely on need, Ms. Welch said.
