Delighting customers is not the universal modus operandi of Safeway, even though some individual workers are helpful to me from time to time.
"A number of groups--particularly biz groups that historically have not been strongly in favor of universal coverage--seem to be going that direction, " says Larry Levitt, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Washington, D.
These ideas grew out of the European enlightenment, but today they are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, not as the birthright of Americans or Westerners, but of people everywhere.
Uniquely among rich countries, America's system of health insurance is not universal.
The government must give a "swift assurance" that the introduction of Universal Credit will not cause a rise in benefit fraud, MPs have said.
Universal coverage might not be the cause of their inferior performance.
Comcast earnings brought in the day Wednesday, as the cable provider showed that its recent acquisition of NBC Universal was not in vain for a disappearing subscriber.
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Others point out that a similar period in history of surging globalisation ended not in universal peace but the first world war.
If Apple really is trying to build bridges to NBC Universal, it's not the kind of overture that Jobs will want to broadcast in a keynote.
But most investment banks do not have the luxury of also being a big universal bank.
The search for linguistic universals yielded interesting data on languages, but after decades of work, not a single proposed universal has withstood scrutiny.
Their recent acquisition of the 49% of the remaining shares of NBC Universal that they did not own, cements their industry leadership, and enhances their long-term growth potential.
That world began when Johannes Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1455, and gave birth along the way to the Reformation, the Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the Scientific Method, and finally the Industrial Revolution not to mention the modern era of newspapers, universal education and, yes, mass literacy.
Although it's not perfect, Hub is the best implementation of a universal inbox I've used so far.
And it is not clear how he could salvage universal healthcare without the option of forcing people to buy insurance.
He has built a career assuming the existence of a universal funny bone, performing not just in Britain but also in France, Iceland, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, and Sweden.
Mr. Yakovlev (interpretation from Russian): I fully agree with the previous speaker that perhaps the most important condition for universal dialogue in the area of culture and not just in the area of culture, is depoliticization of that dialogue.
UNESCO: Dialogue among civilizations: Address by Alexandre Yakovlev (Russian Federation)
If Democrats can cross the psychic barrier of accepting that universal coverage is just not viable now, they'll see there's a much safer, surer and politically beneficial course wide open for them: Just call the Republicans' bluff about starting over.
The pope views his ministry as Bishop of Rome and Universal Pastor to be not a life term (a life sentence?) but a responsibility that it is now time to give up before a crisis might paralyze the Church and its leaders.
Universal says it's just trying not to lose sight of the fact that most of its consumers - in fact, as many as 90 percent - buy their CDs with a physical product.
The criminal law should once again be more like the common law, with judges and juries not merely finding fact but making law on the basis of universal principles of fairness, circumstance, and seriousness, and crafting penalties to the exigencies of the crime.
Its shares dropped sharply as rumours of the NBC Universal deal spread, and have not yet recovered.
For starters, most of the major institutions that cratered in 2008 were not universal banks that funded capital market activities (such as underwriting) with insured deposits.
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Demand for many services will not go away, but in a world of scarcer credit, universal banks will be tempted to use their lending capacity to win juicier investment-banking business from companies.
The idea is that holiness, "being a saint, " is not just the province of a few spiritual athletes, but is the universal destiny of every Christian.
My concern with moving toward any sort of universal healthcare is that we focus entirely on insurance and not at all on pricing and creating an actual, functioning market for healthcare services.
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Some of the most intelligent and accomplished people I know get bent-out-of-shape by the notion that they do not have near-universal appreciation.
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Let's face it, not everyone can afford to go out and blow hundreds of dollars on a swank universal touchscreen remote or home automation system in order to simplify their life, and for those who are forced to juggle the half-dozen or so remotes required to bring their AV system to life, this here invention is for you.
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