Reform of aircraft take-off and landing rights, known as slots, is also long overdue.
Palm was slow to innovate, typically letting its licensees lead the way with such splashy new ideas as expansion slots and MP3 players.
Airbus Commercial Director John Leahy said that if more airlines want the A380, they would have to wait until the second half of 2008, as delivery slots for 2006 and 2007 had been filled.
Would-be entrants to the market, such as British Midland (see article), should now be able to buy slots as necessary.
EasyJet said it expected to get more market share in Switzerland and more flight slots as a result of the current crisis.
The RetroN 4 will have four cartridge slots as well as two controller ports for each system, allowing for users to use their original controllers.
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Although it varies from place to place, lottery-type games such as keno or slots typically have the worst odds, with the house advantage getting up to around 35%.
Down the left-hand side, we've got Ethernet, VGA, HDMI 1.4a ports, 3.5mm headphone and microphone jacks and a pair of USB 3.0 slots as well as a 2.8-inch vent where all the heat that it generated is pumped out.
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Samsung prefers to make the back cover removable, meaning you have easy access to the 2, 600mAh battery (which doubles as the NFC antenna), along with the microSDXC and micro-SIM slots -- as well as contacts for inductive charging -- just above it.
But Pfeiffer said it turned out there wasn't as much as expected from the slots, which have been in various casinos around the country.
Prying open the back cover reveals the 3, 100mAh removable battery hanging out with microSDXC and micro-SIM slots, as well as contacts for NFC and wireless charging.
Because of this limit, and because it is possible to see the number of submitted applications (as well as the number of slots offered by the company) for each position, there is some strategy involved in deciding which externships to apply to.
The makers said RAF Valley could feature as one of the four slots occupied by train stations on the traditional London-based board.
As competition has intensified for slots at the city's elite public and private schools, a growing number of parents are pursuing both options, anxious to secure a top education for their children.
Should the U.S. Department of Transportation, as expected, take some slots away from the majors at New York's JFK and LaGuardia airports, expect Southwest to move in, giving it a foothold in a new city with lucrative routes.
Each machine will support hard drives as large as 180 gigabytes and will have slots for up to four drives, giving them a maximum storage capacity of 720 gigabytes.
With last year's Super Bowl reaching a record 106.5 million viewers, and advertising slots that sold out as early as October, the competition for eyeballs during Super Bowl XLV will be tougher than ever.
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In 2005, Gator Nation discontinued the Family Medicine residency program in Jacksonville and used the open slots for surgical specialties such as ophthalmology.
The airline will launch with 11 routes as early as November and has applied for 50 launching slots at Toronto's main airport.
The short film categories -- animated and live-action -- are among those Oscar slots that rarely garner attention, such as makeup or sound mixing.
Slots open up around special projects or as staffers take sabbaticals.
In a sport whose revenues have been steadily declining, the prospect of an infusion of slots money was tantalizingly close, but as far as away as Albany from Ozone Park.
As we mentioned earlier, the Liquid Gallant packs slots for two SIMs (which you'll notice in our gallery below), a 5-megapixel rear camera accompanied by single LED flash and micro-USB port.
Jenny is no stranger to playing with the heavyweights either, past support slots include appearing on the same bills as Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention), Midge Ure (Ultravox), Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) and Ralph McTell.
Mr Marsh also introduced innovations such as a focus on citizenship journalism and the guest editor slots, featuring the likes of former Home Secretary David Blunkett.
The largest states, such as Texas, New York and California generally use the 30 slots within days, according to Greg Siskind, partner, Siskind Susser, P.
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Virgin and other carriers such as Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and Emirates operate long-haul services, frequently using airports, such as London's Heathrow, where there are limited runway slots for take-off and landing.
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Competitors are ready to pounce on any misstep to win away customers, something that will become easier as American and US Airways are forced to give up landing slots on routes they once monopolized.
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