Also significant, company officials said, is that the 12-way processor Sun Fire 4800 reached 60, 000 operations per second running the SpecJBB Java Application Tier, while the 24-way processor Sun Fire 6800 reached 109, 000 operations per second.

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The bank's profit number beat consensus forecasts by about 5 per cent, and the core tier one capital ratio -- a key measure of financial strength -- was also slightly ahead of expectations at 12.3 per cent.

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After leaving office, in 2002, he started a consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, and embarked on a series of highly lucrative lecture tours, commanding the transportation (Gulfstream IV), the accommodation (a two-bedroom suite, plus four rooms for his entourage), and the remuneration (up to a hundred thousand dollars per appearance) accorded only to the highest tier.

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Analysts believe the lender could have a core tier one capital ratio of close to 20 per cent initially, falling to 9 per cent -- the level required by the troika agreement -- in three years' time once losses have been incurred and recognised.

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With such a small sample those falls could seriously distort the average spending per beneficiary enough to rank my little hospital in a lower tier.

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The shift appears to have been driven at least in part by economics -- a top medical center in India charges about a tenth what a second-tier U.S. medical center would charge per case report, the authors said.

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We are looking at first- and second-tier cities and maybe will open one to two stores per year.

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The bank was able to point to progress in shoring up its capital, reporting that core tier one capital if incoming Basel III banking rules were applied had reached 8 per cent, three months earlier than planned.

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