Adversarial relationships between customers, main contractors and sub-contractors mean that design changes often cause rows and that problems are not tackled until they reach crisis proportions.
Until now, Montblanc's chronographs have featured traditional hour and minute hands on the main dial and smaller rotating disk sub-dials with stationary hands to measure elapsed minutes and seconds.
Regional banks have also steered clear of the other main area where credit is deteriorating, sub-prime lending (high-interest loans to borrowers with patchy credit).
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Instead, the main impact on Asia of the US sub-prime crisis has been a growth in uncertainty, the World Bank said in its six monthly regional assessment.
With more than 600 main post offices and 18, 000 sub-post offices handling 20 billion letters a year, the service has not only deep roots but strong allies.
In another scheme to resurface the main route for vehicles in the square, sub-contractors are having to relay the road surface after problems were identified.
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For Facebook, the hope is that by slashing clutter and making content more aesthetically pleasing, users will spend more minutes on the site, clicking through on stories and exploring both the main news-feed channel, and the sub-feeds that appeal to their particular interests.
Work to expand the refinery was sub-contracted by Total's main contractor - engineering firm Jacobs - to an Italian company, IREM, which decided to use its own foreign workforce.
It focused on one main area, Decision Making (Choices), under the sub-theme, "Don't follow the tide, U decide" .
In some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, traditional apprenticeships are the main type of skills training for those not formally employed.
Xie Yuan, director of Department of American and Oceanian Affairs at the CPAFFC, told the China Daily that improving sub-national level economic cooperation and local employment would be the main topics among the governors.
Our correspondent says the main example is banking giant UBS, which wrote off billions in the wake of the 2007 sub-prime mortgage crisis, and then had to be bailed out by the Swiss government.
Kim Kyong Lim, chief executive of Korea Exchange Bank, the main lender to Hyundai, argues that this should be no problem, since the bank's sub-standard loans stood at less than 18% of its portfolio at the end of June.
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