Class B shares have ten times the voting power of Class A shares, however only the latter can be publicly traded on the Nasdaq.
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The two companies are pushing for a new class of machines that combine the power of a personal computer and the portability of a personal digital assistant.
Once or twice a decade the UK may well join big US missions in its capacity as a first-class military power.
The deeper worry among Turkey's secular elite is not about creeping Islam but over a loss of power to an encroaching class of pious bureaucrats and entrepreneurs that has become increasingly visible since Turgut Ozal, a modernising former prime minister, liberalised the economy after the generals' third and most recent direct coup in 1980.
It was not always thus: Boyle, 55, was born into a working-class family in Manchester, northern England, the son of a power plant worker and a cafeteria employee, and as a child had hoped to become a Catholic priest.
Although the U.S State Department subsequently implemented a special immigrant visa program for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, the creation of this class of refugees is a testament to the power of language politics, and an example of the fallout from American insufficiencies in this area.
The Class A shares offered to the public carry one-tenth of the voting power of the Class B shares held by team ownership.
The dual-class share structure at News Corp gives a strong power base to Rupert Murdoch and his close allies.
Large scale manufacturing, union power, a strong middle class and the music that became the soundtrack for American life all can claim roots in Motown.
Intel is betting Silverthorne, slated for next year, will help create a new class of lightweight devices that can perform as well as a desktop machine using significantly less power.
Facebook is selling Class A stock in its IPO, but the real power (and value) will be retained by holders of the Class B shares.
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These people are not only rich but also exceptionally clever, because America has become expert at sending its brightest to the same elite universities, where they intermarry and confer on their offspring not just wealth but also a cognitive advantage that gives this class terrific staying power.
Economic growth in emerging economies has produced a critical mass of middle-class consumers with buying power.
The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor combines the company's award-winning Advanced Voice processing technology with its first high-performance, low-power audio codec for a best in class voice, speech recognition and multimedia experience on a mobile device.
Despite the buzz the company has generated, VMware didn't invent virtualization, a class of software that makes better use of the processing power inside computer servers.
In January's election, new politicians such as Yair Lapid, finance minister, rose to power on promises to help the middle class at a time when Israel needs to cut spending and raise taxes to close a growing budget deficit.
But a frequently asked question these days is: Are we exceeding the optimal point of inequality and descending into an era of a vanishing middle class and, with it, the spending power and inclination with which it fuels an economy?
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Eventually society exhausts the carrying capacity of the truly productive and leverages itself with so much debt that the private economy is crowded out or manipulates the medium of exchange in a way that destroys the purchasing power of working class people.
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In the 16th century, when it was at its strongest, the Ottoman empire came within spitting distance of Vienna, its power fueled by superior technology and a strong merchant class.
If the very rich can use their power to monopolize wealth today and a prosperous middle class disappears, then the disappearance of demand will force even the wealthiest to suffer a sharply reduced style of life.
Just past midnight, the Senate passed, by a 52-47 vote, the GOP budget bill that Republicans say will balance the budget by 2002, salvage the Medicare program, return power to the states, and hand the middle class a tax cut.
The technology consists of a solar panel that charges a battery daily to power the projector used during the evening class.
Operating with a voltage of 1.35V, according to Samsung tests it provides an average 70% power savings (per unit density) over a 50nm class equivalent, 1.5V DDR3-based RDIMM.
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The opportunity to pursue advanced education, career growth, entrepreneurial passions and material comfort based on ambition and hard work rather than race, class, or background have not only made the United States a preeminent world power, but a model for nations everywhere and a beacon of hope for generations of people like me.
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The government is building out more coal power plants to provide electricity to a demanding and growing middle class.
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Born into a working-class, immigrant family, she speaks persuasively about the transformative power of education and personifies her own message.
The likes of Baker, Scowcroft, Brzezinski and Hamilton and their students comprise a permanent Middle East policy ruling class that endures regardless of who is in power and what their actual views about Middle Eastern realities happen to be.
According to Nakia Jean Lozoya, a marketing assistant at Tustin-based Peak Power Solutions, middle-class homeowners are leading the charge towards 100 percent renewable energy in Orange County.
As part of my job, I reported alarming inadequacies: in one case high-grade equipment (ASME III, class 1) was operated in nuclear power reactors with no accepted safety file, regardless of a previous accident and a half-dozen failures in achieving acceptable design results.
One of my kids middle class friends was once escorted into a private buffet hall designed for birthday parties with dry ice, a Power Rangers costume, and two large screen TVs showing moments of his short 8 year life, all set to dramatic music.
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