When dealing with applicants list there are cases where it would be of grate
advantage to easily be able to hide specific entries from the output, instead of
deleting them and loosing the entered data 8which might be useful for future
use).

This could of course be done with adding a field and dealing with it in the
templates, but then you would still need to modify the entry to get the desired
effect.
Think of the green check and the red X in a column called visible/active or
something.