11.   As they waited while immigration authorities processed their applications, they received lessons in American civics and the English language.

12.   Bayer has hired Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit management company in Maryland Heights, Mo., to process the applications and deliver the drug.

13.   Because Smith could not get the money fast enough to process his application, the Land Department got its permit first.

14.   A Pac Bell clerk then must further process the application.

15.   A spokeswoman for the federal Small Business Administration said it was processing more applications for low-interest loans than in all disasters over the past five years combined.

16.   All INS officers in Boston, he added, will be devoting at least two months this fall exclusively to processing naturalization applications.

17.   Bureaucratic institutions being what they are, it will take a while for the Fulton County government to process my application.

18.   Bush supports allowing families to remain in this country while immigration applications are being processed, said Ray Sullivan, a campaign spokesperson.

19.   But advocates of immigration limits said it is quite reasonable to expect immigrants to cover the cost of processing their applications.

20.   Cumbersome regulations then maroon tens of thousands of them in centers while their applications are processed, at great cost to the German taxpayer.