Dr John Chisholm, Chairman of BMA's GP's Committee, said: "First rate family doctors feel their patients get a second rate NHS service - or worst".
Eager to remake a second rate legacy carrier that was always in bankruptcy, they ripped out first class seats from many planes, and then in the ones where they maintained first class, it was no longer an option for their best customers to be upgraded.
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If a second-rate exchange is first to attract a critical mass of trading, even a better trading system may fail to wrest business away.
In other words, Apple had been stuck with a second-rate Google Maps app while Android had a far better one.
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"Ireland are not a second-rate team, they are supposed to be a first-rate team, " insisted Trapattoni, who managed Italy from 2000 to 2004.
First, as my fellow Forbes contributor Peter Cohan points out, even if it is successful, the strategy will effectively make Dell a second-rate IBM.
They took over the successful perfume business begun by their extraordinarily perspicacious mother Estee Lauder and built it into a global empire that made Revlon look like a scruffy second rate operation.
Digital delivery means readers outside the New York area no longer face a choice between paying more for the Times or settling for a second-rate local paper like, say, the Gainesville Sun.
Jarrold and his screenwriters, Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams, have decided to treat the life of Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) as if it were itself the plot of an undiscovered Austen novel, albeit a second-rate one.
Or do we think that at some point companies say, you know what, America has got a second-rate infrastructure and it costs us too much money because our trucks going over those potholes are getting messed up?
The plot of "Lost in Yonkers" sounds like the premise for a second-rate sitcom: Eddie (Dominic Comperatore) gets into hot water with a loan shark, stows his two boys (Matthew Gumley and Russell Posner) with his gargoyle-like mother (Cynthia Harris) and goofy sister (Finnerty Steeves) and goes on the lam.
For a cash tax rate Apple was the second lowest with a 13% cash tax rate with Amazon at 4% and Oracle at the high-end at 25%.
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The researchers at Almaden hope to push that up to 10 gigabits a second soon a rate comparable with the best optical-fibre connections.
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After a series of experiments involving various numbers of electrodes and various frequencies of stimulation, they have found that using an array of 25 electrodes and a stimulation rate of 50 pulses a second produces the desired suppression, but only if the electrodes themselves are out of synch with each other.
" By contrast the current show, says this dealer, has "a lot of second-rate work.
This particular box would be installed in a fighter jet, permitting the pilot to upload video at a rate of 2MB per second, presumably fed from another plane, satellite or nearby ground troops.
In March, the central bank cut its lending rate by a quarter percentage point, which was its second rate reduction in 2013.
The high-resolution camera will offer a video image with a frame rate of 3.25 frames per second with a resolution that is comparable to much of Google Earth.
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The hands free unit has a 5.0 MP (2560 x 1920) camera mode and a video mode that records D1 video (720x480) at a rate up to 30 frames per second with audio.
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No group among all the services had as high a casualty rate as Marine Corps second lieutenants.
Peter Riddell in The Times recently described the Shadow Cabinet as "among the most second-rate in a generation".
Jones forecasts a Fed rate hike in the second half of 2013.
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Quantitative easing appeared to have stabilised the growth of this measure, though at a sluggish rate, in the second quarter of 2009.
Last week, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy expanded at a 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter, and private economists don't predict much of a pickup in the third quarter.
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He said the rate of growth of in Hyderabad was second only to Madras, which had registered a growth rate of 150%, although in terms of volume, Hyderabad was still behind Bangalore.
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On the eve of the February 28 Michigan primary, Romney delivered a speech promising a second tax cut on top of the Bush tax cuts to a top rate of 28%.
Effective January 2013, Slovakia, with a 19% flat income tax system, raised its corporate tax rate to 23%, and introduced a second 25% tax bracket for higher personal incomes.
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If I had to guess I would say that the May-June decrease in industrial production is a harbinger, that the second half of 2012 will see Russia grow at a greatly reduced rate, and that overall 2012 GDP growth will just under 3%.
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It added that the number is growing at a rate of 12 machines every second.
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