In 1988, he got attracted to International Dairy Queen and bought 50 shares of its class A stock mainly because he thought it was a company that Buffett would favor, given its good products, easy-to-understand operations, high returns on equity, little debt, and a reasonable price-earnings ratio.
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Once or twice a decade the UK may well join big US missions in its capacity as a first-class military power.
Tokyo, like Paris, puts its faith in a dirigiste class of well-educated conformists.
But if Google is serious about motivating its people, combating defections, and maintaining its reputation as a world class company, it must do more than round up the usual suspects.
Few historians understood how people outside the nobility functioned, but there was a thriving middle class able to give its progeny a classical education in public schools, of which Shakespeare and fellow literary luminary Ben Jonson were beneficiaries.
There was little awareness of how other classes of people in the era functioned, including a thriving middle class able to give its progeny a classical education in public schools, of which Shakespeare and fellow literary luminary Ben Jonson were beneficiaries.
Its location near the geographic centre of the US, a world-class airport and a rash of recent hotel developments in its pedestrian-friendly core have combined to make Denver an increasingly regular stop on the business travel circuit.
His record of building roads, ports, power plants and a generally business-friendly environment in Gujarat appeals to a new middle class that wants its politicians to offer people a hand up, not a handout.
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The Fed is considered a world-class regulator, and its intervention sends a sign to markets that the government has a crisis under control.
Dubai had used some of its billions of dollars in oil money to build a world-class port of its own, and then created DP World to buy and manage other port operations.
In solar news, Morocco is on its way to becoming a world-class solar energy producer, as the country recently announced plans to harvest 14 percent of its energy from the sun by 2020.
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The 84-year-old already owns about 70% of Playboy's Class A common stock and 28% of its Class B stock.
The Indian school of business in Hyderabad opened its doors in 2001 with a class of 128 students.
At Vauvert Primary School, two reception classes will be run a fraction below its maximum class size of 25 with 49 pupils in total.
Serving steaks -- along with tableside-prepared Caesar salads and Bananas Foster -- since the 1950s, The Golden Steer has remained in a class of its own.
Without an internal combustion engine or transmission tunnel, the interior of Model S has more cargo space than any other sedan in its class and includes a second trunk under the hood.
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As before, the 2012 Acura TL remains one of the few cars in its class to offer a manual transmission as a no-cost option on the all-wheel-drive version with the larger V6.
Unfortunately, the lofty price tag puts it in a class of its own, but it's still a solid machine for those looking to a learn a bit (or just give their kids a wholesome distraction).
But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.
Unified, based in New York and San Francisco, touts its platform as a business-class service that allows brands and agencies to manage paid media campaigns across a wide variety of social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and others.
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Moreover, in terms of usability this smartphone is in a class of its own thanks to a high-performance 1.5 Ghz dual core CPU and the latest version of the Human Centric Engine, offered by Fujitsu to make for easy operations through technology that adapts to users and usage environments.
In 1991, the year that Glen Hansard started The Frames, he also played Outspan, the baby-faced Dublin guitar player in "The Commitments, " a feature that has gained a global following. (It's one of my favorite films ever.) What makes "The Commitments" so widely loved is, among other pleasures, its use of a working-class rock band's rise and fall as an armature for individual drama.
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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Because there is no one definition of business talent, each school assembles its class one person at a time.
Holders of its American Depository Receipts have filed a class-action suit in America.
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Novartis is looking to enter the arthritis drug market with its own version of a widely successful class of painkiller.
The move provoked a stare-down with Schwab, which ordinarily mandates that a fund list its cheapest share class with the supermarket, but Schwab let the old Davis fund keep its NTF listing for existing customers.
Microsoft also has offered price breaks on its Windows software meant for a new class of simple PCs known as netbooks and seems to be responding to a market shift in consumer demand toward smaller tablets.
The company is growing faster than its competition due to a best in class reference customer list and more recently, the launch of software that is easier to use, focuses on alerting users when something is wrong, and finally, a push into the mid-market with an in-house sales force.
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