1.   A ballot will be held and all new applicants will be notified of the result by mid May.

2.   The longest operation will, of course, be entering the details of new applicants into the system.

3.   The Valuation Protection Scheme is being offered to all new applicants free of charge.

4.   The purchaser will also normally be treated as a new applicant for listing, its securities will be suspended and it will be required to publish listing particulars.

5.   And it makes an energetic effort to dissuade new applicants from coming on the rolls.

6.   A company that falls within his parameters is Hooper Holmes Inc., which is hired by life and health insurers to perform medical examinations of new applicants.

7.   But at least six other boards have voted not to renew the contracts of their superintendents and to advertise for new applicants.

8.   But there is not enough money provided so that new applicants could join the program.

9.   Each field office is responsible for the first round of screening involving new applicants, who are subjected to grueling background investigations, drug tests and polygraph examinations.

10.   Federal officials said they would examine new applicants more closely.