This creates a two tiered system, but better than no tier that 40 million people experience now.
Though no top-tier record company has supported the MP3 format, Sub Pop joins a growing list of independent record labels offering MP3 versions of their artists' recordings.
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Yet early Chinese OEMs offered only low-tier phones with no attempts at branding or differentiation.
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What will happen if the returns no longer justify top-tier budgets?
There is no denying that this event features Tier 1 talent, but if you take the time, it also showcases serious up and coming industry powerhouses.
Based on the above numbers, investors might be concerned about RIM and its future or that Motorola ( MOT) is no longer listed in the top tier of handset vendors.
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The so-called Volcker Rule was adopted (which at least would limit proprietary trading by depository banks to no more than 3% of their Tier 1 capital).
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The Department for Work and Pensions confirmed that under a single-tier pension there would be no contracting out so workers would pay more national insurance, but as a result they would get a better state pension.
Indigenous music no longer commands Jazzfest's top-tier billing.
Industry second-tier practice would get that money delivered no later than this Wednesday, June 30.
No Big Four audit firms came but next-tier firms like Grant Thornton, McGladrey and Crowe Horwath sent professionals.
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So my best prospects said no, leaving me to move onto the second tier, now with a vastly improved story.
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Since the Premier League was established in 1992, no other manager has won more than three top-tier league titles.
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And earlier this year Tyco fell from tier one to tier three, a level for which there is almost no demand.
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John Greenway (Ryedale, Conservative) asked if North Yorkshire would keep its two-tier local government if the regional referendum there returned a no vote.
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Comcast will benefit no matter who wins the various series, but wants the top tier teams to go further so that ratings will be higher.
With Free Wi-Fi topping the list of passenger requests at airports, it is no surprise that the effectiveness of this business model is prompting top tier venues to join the AWG network.
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The difference is that there was no formal VC class back then: merely investment-minded second-tier deal-makers who did their wheeling and dealing in the interstices of the stock market, Robber Baron and small-entrepreneur worlds.
Coimbatore is a second-tier industrial town in the steamy-hot south of India with no cosmopolitan flair.
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No government in the foreseeable future is likely to tackle co-determination and two-tier boards head on.
Because he is a top-tier frequent flier, Air New Zealand automatically increases his bid by 50% at no charge.
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Truth is, there is probably no quick fix that will vault the U.S. from a second or third-tier soccer nation into the ranks of Spain and Germany.
And while no mind-boggling fortunes like those of Rockefeller and Carnegie were created by this second-tier (those levels would not be reached again until the Bill Gates era), the wealth that was created was nothing to sneeze at (and was much larger, in aggregate, than the wealth created for and by the Robber Barons in the nineteenth century).
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