Mr Thong said the aircraft were needed to help boost the airline's growth, particularly in the development of business class services with Europe.
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With a sleek cinematic design and interface that offers superior functionality, TMN GO, HBO GO Canada and TMN Encore GO are best-in-class services that allow subscribers to engage with over 1, 200 titles and 1, 500 hours of premium content.
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The public and hybrid cloud services will be jointly provided by Mobily and Virtustream and will offer world-class cloud services to enterprises and small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).
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But he knows that the Labour Party will never accept the reforms needed to build first class public services.
It brings together the convenience and mobility expertise that RadioShack is known for, with the great value and best-in-class wireless services that Cricket delivers.
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But you can't achieve world-class public services on the cheap.
All aircraft (such as from the Ecuadorian Army, Air Force, and commercial airlines) that are operated out of Eloy Alfaro benefit from world class response services in cases of accidents, fires or rescues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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You might argue, for instance, that in many countries rising incomes and structural economic change have created a new and larger middle class, weakening support for public services (which the middle class pays for) and undermining trade unions (which tend to be anti-liberal).
Bank profits will grow as more Greeks become middle class and tap financial services.
Unlike the software business, India's other world-class industry, remote services do not employ only the highly educated.
Wind River's world-class customization and consulting services and global support help customers in the management of highly detailed requirements and complex project planning associated with the automotive industry.
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When the Assembly Government launched Designed for Life back in 2005, its purpose and ambition was "to create world class healthcare and social services in a healthy, dynamic country by 2015".
Emerging markets are a large opportunity given the increasing appetite among the growing middle class for pay-TV services.
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The first repeals the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act.
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"Verizon's best-in-class networks and award-winning services provide an edge in delivering entertainment and information to customers across all of their screens, " said Strickland.
The debris also struck the assisted-living facility and an emergency-services building where 25 emergency-services volunteers were in class, according to one of the trainees present.
The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, the national long-term care insurance program included in the 2010 health reform law, is on life-support.
Europe has many world-class companies that sell goods and services across the globe and that are not dependent on the fortunes of peripheral members of the euro zone.
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The consequences of this, as Hendler sees it, are less access to credit and services for the middle class while more resources and capital are devoted to businesses the banks see as higher growth.
When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling, when people are slipping out of the middle class, it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom.
From international money transfer to bill-pay to check cashing and prepaid, Walmart has been a pioneer of financial services for the emerging middle class.
It said the hospital provided a first-class service but in relation to paediatric services it expressed concerns about the hospital being able to maintain a workforce with the right skills.
An internal Obama administration e-mail recently leaked to the press appeared to reveal that officials would shut down a controversial component of the health reform law the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports, or CLASS Act.
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Time Warner Cable Business Class offers data, video and voice services to businesses of all sizes, cell tower backhaul services to wireless carriers and, through its NaviSite subsidiary, managed and outsourced information technology solutions and cloud services.
African countries are seeing how sound governance, economic and political stability and pro-market economic policies are producing a new entrepreneurial class eager to create new industries and services to meet the needs of growing numbers emerging from poverty.
The proliferation of the middle class has erupted in a spree of banking services offering mobile apps and ATMs to the population.
One way she did this was by taking a free Kauffman FastTrac GrowthVenture class provided by New York City Small Business Services at the Levin Institute.
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Known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or Class Act, this entitlement is in both the House and Senate bills and was a top priority of the late Sen.
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