When the Cold War ended the service had well over 500 vessels in the active fleet, but that number dwindled to less than 400 during the 1990s and less than 300 in the decade just ended.
As with any business deal where you're being asked to pay hard, cold cash for an intangible service, the buyer should beware.
He was taken to hospital "suffering from cold", the fire service said.
The Vulcan made its maiden flight in 1952 before acting as a deterrent during the Cold War and seeing active service in the Falklands War.
Using a platform developed by e-commerce and payment processing First Data in use by Cold Stone and other food service companies, the eGift takes the concept of the virtual gift and brings it back to reality.
Research by consumer group Which? found signing up to the free Telephone Preference Service (TPS) cuts cold calls by a third.
Around 100 hundred mourners filled the church while another braved the bitterly cold spring day to listen to the service on loud speakers outside.
For example, RFE's Polish service (disbanded after the Cold War) acted as if it were a domestic medium, broadcasting news and features that were of particular interest to the people of Poland.
One thing is certain: The chances for severe weather are on the decline as a cold front moves through the region, said weather service meteorologist Gene Hatch in Springfield, Mo.
The idea is that you flash it before a meal -- thus, informing the staff of your keen ability to use the Internet -- at which point the manager will suddenly break into a cold sweat and start nervously heaping you with extraordinary service.
"The firefighters who responded today were performing a selfless, meaningful service to their community, unaware that a cold-hearted maniac was planning to ambush them and take their lives, " said Harold Schaitberger, general president of the Washington-based International Association of Fire Fighters.
Winter is always the most difficult time for the health service - illness and injury increase when it is cold.
Weather service meteorologist Bill Goodman said a slow-moving cold front across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic could bring more rain on Monday.
Nuclear weapons may have gone out of style since the cold war ended, but they have not gone out of service.
Such developments reflect, too, a generational change in Brazil's highly professional foreign service: older diplomats, who worked during the cold war and Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship, are giving way to younger ones, who feel that the world's ninth-largest economy should be less shy of flexing its democratic muscles.
It sells hot- and cold-rolled carbon steel to construction companies, steel distributors and service centers and automotive and industrial machinery producers.
National Weather Service forecasters urged caution early Friday as they warned that "bitterly cold conditions" were expected to continue across much of the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast into the weekend.
But in recent years the health service has got much better at planning for the rise in patients that cold weather inevitably brings.
South Western Ambulance Service added that while they had seen a rise in callouts the unseasonal cold temperatures also added to the increased workload.
During hundreds of camping trips and meetings and service projects and weird and wonderful events such as the Klondike Derby (a cold-weather competition in which scouts drag makeshift sleds over frozen ground for hours), I learned how to adapt to changing circumstances on the fly while keeping the main goals in sight.
The two recipes, "Cold Omelets with Crab Meat" and "Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing, " appear in an article titled "Cold Omelets with Crab Meat, " written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News, a copy of which can be seen here.
Closing a sale used to begin with a cold call: meeting a customer who may or may not be happy with the product or service they own, and guiding them through the process of purchasing new or upgrading to something better all of this based on proven methods of providing information to bring the customer to the logical conclusion that they want to purchase.
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"It's just a cold, really strong upper low, " said Carol Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, Calif.
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