Implausibly, Larry Weinbach has brought it back, with a focus on service and consulting.
He figures his business will just keep scraping by on service and used cars.
AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), with its focus on service learning, gave me that opportunity.
During such climates, marketers have historically bolted on service offerings to help differentiate themselves.
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Potter is tying 25% of employee bonuses to quarterly polls of customers on service quality.
Before deregulation in 1978, airlines competed almost entirely on service, thick steaks, white napkins, porcelain china.
Mayors Lee and Rawlings-Blake join more than 100 U.S. Mayors in their focus on service.
Co-moderator and Time magazine managing editor Rick Stengel asked McCain if he'd want a cabinet-level position focusing on service.
The company reported wireless operating income margin of 32.9% and EBITDA margin on service revenues of 50.4%.
The average number of web application attacks is 61.4 among on-premise customers and 27.8 on service provider customers.
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But for organizations that rely on service fleets those strategies are de rigueur.
EBay has said it hopes to explore new areas of Internet commerce, and voice has become a natural add-on service.
If they choose, they could develop their own caste system, based on service time and performance, to create associates and partners.
Wireless operating income margin was 30.8 percent and segment EBITDA margin on service revenues (non-GAAP) was 49.0 percent, both record highs.
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When budgets get squeezed, the practical choice is often between reining in compensation costs per employee or cutting back on service delivery.
They can still make money on service and on selling used cars.
Ctrip also hawks tickets online, but its main focus is on service.
Obama was to follow up Monday's speech on patriotism with an address Tuesday about faith and remarks later in the week on service.
Again, it would be better to have flat monthly charges based on peak speeds of always-on service plus packet charges for traffic actually carried.
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The goal is to make it easy to buy the phone then make the money back and a profit over time on service contracts.
The monks also provided the highly successful business model based on service and selflessness that has become the basis for all my work.
This, Fernandopulle explained, would force doctors on staff to focus on service, in order to retain their patients and the fees they would bring.
Judged on service, some of the new services have their drawbacks: fiddly boxes that must be fitted to telephones, slow connections, fuzzy sound quality.
That means smaller, local builders who focus on service and understand the nuances of the local market can get a bigger piece of the action.
Not only are products judged on service, but manufacturers hope to avoid negligence claims from customers emboldened by a recent tightening of Japan's product-liability laws.
The call for effective, polite, and spot-on service will only increase.
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Besides, dealers can still make decent money on service and used car sales, so they aren't terribly motivated to shutter a family business built over generations.
The petro-giants own the oil, but they rely on service companies like Weatherford to drill for it, study it and build wells and pumps to extract it.
The fact that this has been raised at all in such a subjective fashion could have a chilling effect on service personnel sharing their faith at all.
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The scorecard was useful to Mobil Corp. (as it was then known) when it was trying to reorganize its business around competition on service, rather than price.
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