Increasingly, they are flexible in nature, allowing enrolled participants the ability to hold onto that big career while building the credentials now required to cut the grade in top management.

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All countries that have defaulted since the mid-1970s had their grade cut to junk by ratings agencies at least a year beforehand.

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Then to cut costs, they have to use cheaper grade components, like they do in the desktop and laptop market with cheaper grade this and that to cut costs and the MTBF is such that they are throw away products that people will be unhappy with.

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An eighth-grade education doesn't cut it today.

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Vijay Kumar, one of the doctors stuck in this grade, say they could help to cut NHS waiting times.

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Speaking as a 45 year old, I have currently been in work for 7 years and hope to continue but cut backs will be made in November for my grade of Admin Assistant.

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The debt rating service Fitch this morning cut its stance on Nokia to one notch above junk grade, cautioning that the outlook for the troubled phone giant remains negative as it continues to lose market share.

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To imagine that private industry, needing to cut costs to the bone, could do a better job at securing massive quantities of bomb-grade material is a fantasy.

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Iceland, however, saw its national credit rating cut by two notches to Baa3 from Baa1 by Moody's, to the lowest possible investment-grade rating.

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