Some of these nimbler airlines specialize in point-to-point service, instead of the hub-and-spoke system used by the legacy carriers.
But if American firms are in difficulty, their imitators in Europe, where many patients get medicines free at the point of service and strict regulations govern drug sales and advertising, will struggle even more.
In March, the company launched Square Register, an iPad-based point of sale service for accepting payments and tracking inventory.
Google Wallet is built to work with the fast growing MasterCard PayPass network-a merchant point of sale service that enables consumers to tap to pay.
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It's also a key service point for operators, especially in Great Britain, where rail breakdowns and delays on the formerly government-owned lines have given privatization a bad name.
He also criticised the BBC for coming at every question from a pro-public service point of view, and not doing enough to stand up for the interests of taxpayers.
Wireless access point and Internet service sold separately.
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"More realistically, someone could use that as an entry point into another service, " Soltani said, noting that since few people bother using different passwords for different services, a password stolen from Twitter might be just as handy for reading a journalist's emails.
The site's current Hinkley Point B came into service in 1976 but its working life has been extended to 2016.
Cassidy's service can point you to a buddy who is ready to play the game you want at any moment of the day or night.
It is fair to point out that cable service improved dramatically over that period, expanding from dozens to hundreds of channels, most of which are now in HD.
He's shown this streak before, of course, most notably last September in Queens, when he repelled a Federer semifinal match point by blistering a service return for a cross-court winner.
He had to save a break point in his opening service game and it came as little surprise when he was broken at 1-2, completing a disastrous game with a double fault.
At that point Salesforce's service kicks in, collecting information about the user which then pops up on the Salesforce page of the advertiser's sales team, allowing them to follow up and sell something.
Although capital spending as a whole is shrinking, investment in office equipment such as computers has been rising fast this year, which may point to growth in service businesses such as finance, accounting and information-technology firms.
Windows Embedded 8 Industry, which targets retail point-of-service (POS) solutions and other scenarios across manufacturing and healthcare that require fixed experiences with enhanced lockdown, branding and the other benefits of Windows Embedded 8, will be available the week of April 1.
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The study, which looked at 385 metropolitan statistical areas, said nearly two in five metropolitan areas had one insurance company with a combined market share of 50 percent or more among health maintenance organization (HMO), point-of-service (POS) and preferred provider organization (PPO) plans.
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Steve Sinkevich, a senior biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who monitors the nests at Breezy Point, said the agency, the parks service and the cooperative collaborate to protect the birds with the least amount of recreational interference.
An hour spent in service of your point will feel highly valuable to you.
Last night, we here at BullionVault made the same point to the BBC World Service.
It is exciting to see more CEOs promoting world class customer service as a point of differentiation for their businesses.
Should Pandora investors really be nervous that Apple might come out with a similar service at some point in the coming months?
"There's no single 'choke point' to disrupt the service, " he said.
Besides satisfying the cravings for chicken, the underground not-so-fast food service proves a point, Khalil Efrangi, an entrepreneur who started al-Yamama, told The New York Times.
With the Go Secure service for Check Point products, rather than going through a complex string of downloading files and importing them into Check Point VPN software, end users log on to a Web site and click twice.
At one point, when the room service arrived (after five hours, but this was hardly a time to complain), we realised the extent of the damage inside the hotel - the waiter apologised profusely, explaining that it had be hard to prepare the food as the gas had got into the kitchen.
The company used a performance-based point system to encourage good customer service and adroit massage skills.
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We had a service provider at one point who shared with me the vision letter to his company.
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The OITG provides a single point of contact for assistance and service.
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