Users have spent millions of dollars aligning their internal systems with their local exchange.
This mutual exchange concept is expanded more broadly in the LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) model of private currencies.
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Opponents of iAdvance -- chiefly long-distance carriers and competitive local exchange carriers (CLEC) -- ridicule the apparent contradiction and say Project Pronto proves iAdvance's arguments are bogus.
However, the firm has provided an online postcode checking facility for its subscribers to check if their local exchange has been flagged as having an issue.
In telecom, Doede cites Kazakhtelecom, which is listed on the local exchange and in Berlin and holds a monopoly position on the fixed and mobile network in Kazakhstan.
Then, when it comes time to exit the company through an initial public offering, NEA and the investment bankers can take UPG public on a local exchange in China.
In a statement, Lucent Chairman and Chief Executive Henry Schacht blamed the loss on softening sales to local exchange carriers and service providers as well as lower software sales.
Mining firms make up almost a fifth of the local exchange's market capitalization, and the city has become a magnet for smaller companies, which can be more-acutely affected by the volatility of the commodities cycle.
The proposed LEI system in this paper relies on the at-source creator of the legal entity and its local certifying agent (an internationally recognized auditor, law firm, perhaps a local exchange or business registry owner or other trusted source) to ensure the accuracy of data.
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Those on the front lines of networking, such as the telcos, Internet service providers, competitive local exchange companies and wireless operators, still prefer time-tested Unix as the operating system for networks. (Prediction: Cisco and Lucent may become the biggest threats to Microsoft over the next five years.) n Thanks to the Internet, small niche companies can reach mass markets in a heartbeat.
Martina helps out for free at the local labour exchange to keep herself sane.
Shares on the local stock exchange touched a five-year high this week.
Another partnership links Comm South, a Dallas-based residential-phone service provider, with a competitive local-exchange carrier called Arbros that focuses on U.S. East Coast businesses.
But other operators have been unable to offer the service to customers who want it, because they would first have to modify BT's local phone exchange to install the new system.
They are important gathering places for local residents to exchange information, entertain, worship and deepen relationships and cultural identity.
Not to be outdone, local competitor Singapore Exchange (SGX) was in the news last month with regards to an acquisition of UK-based clearing house LCH.
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In one of the favelas, outside of the city, one woman (Regina Silva Gomes) decided that she would collect local garbage and exchange it for food lead a project to clean up the community, where the streets were littered with trash and infested with rodents.
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In exchange, local governments will pool their share of the cost and reduce their pumping from today's 145m gallons a day to 90m by 2007.
Losing their local currencies for the euro meant, in effect, a move to an exchange not related to local economic or social realities.
It is hoped it will constitute a reference point for policy makers at the local level, as well a basis for the exchange of knowledge between researchers, city professionals and local authorities on developing inclusive cities.
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RBOCs to open their local monopolies to competitors in exchange for access to long-distance services.
Fisher wisely established the ventures in a way that gave local partners minority stakes in exchange for business assets, ensuring that Kodak would have operational control.
It finds lawyers to work on contingency and pays 90% of litigants' other costs, including travel, expert witnesses and local counsel--in exchange for a lawyer-size fee: 30% to 50% of what's left after the lawyer takes his fee, perhaps 33% of a settlement.
Mr Millar said the exchange facility in the local Boots store clearly mitigated the need for this kind of machine.
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Third, since 2010 Nairobi has had a place, called the iHub, for local techies to get together and exchange ideas.
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Martin Gocke, assistant director of education and libraries at Bracknell said the delay was necessary because of faults with the computer system it used to exchange information with other local education authorities.
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For the second quarter, Tupperware expects to see sales rise 7% to 9% on a local currency basis, but favorable exchange rates will push sales higher in U.S. dollar terms by 12% to 14%.
The chamber of commerce might rent or buy the live video upload kit or get a local company to buy it in exchange for being cited as an underwriter each time it was used.
Once South Africa abandons its residual exchange controls, which limit local companies' foreign investments, unbundling will become more attractive because the cash raised can then be spent abroad.
After years of personal and economic struggles, she eventually set up a recycling system where families could bring their garbage to be her for recycling, in exchange for food at the local grocery store.
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