As for that exception, that hopeful possibility, it has come to mean a whole new set of lists, sub-lists and sub-sub-lists in my life: emails, letters, phone-calls, meetings, trips, forms, visits, events, shows, concerts, sales, walks, runs, appeals, reports, requests, applications and then adding it up and starting again.
Eight families have already requested applications for adoption, Ms. Hickey said.
In recent weeks, 18,000 people have requested applications to join the Peace Corps.
Nearly 12,000 businesses that have requested applications have not even submitted them.
He said 3,000 callers to the company had requested applications after a "brief, modest advertising campaign".
On Wednesday, after the government lifted the taxi restrictions, more than 1,000 interested drivers requested applications from Dublin Corporation, Ms. Brady said.
Earlier this month, Benjamin Lawsky, the superintendent of financial services for New York, requested applications from virtual-currency exchanges interested in doing business in the state.
But they have tried to cut their chances of having a wild partyer by requesting applications from prospective au pairs at the older end of the age range of 18 to 26.
Michael Peacock, a spokesman for the federal Small Business Administration, which is offering loans of up to $1.5 million at 4percentt interest, said 42 businesses had requested applications, but none had been submitted.
While President Vladimir V. Putin is widely believed to have the ultimate say over Mr. Snowden's request, applications for temporary asylum technically do not need the president's personal approval and are routinely granted directly by the Federal Migration Service.
You can also request applications online, which means you don't have to invite an insurance salesman into your living room.
