Class B shares have ten times the voting power of Class A shares, however only the latter can be publicly traded on the Nasdaq.
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The Class A shares offered to the public carry one-tenth of the voting power of the Class B shares held by team ownership.
The Uptime Institute pioneered a widely adopted metric, with rankings from Tier I through Tier IV that quantify the reliability of megawatt-class power systems.
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Although they own just 4% of Ford 's (nyse: F - news - people )common stock, the family controls 40% of the voting power through its Class B shares.
Eventually society exhausts the carrying capacity of the truly productive and leverages itself with so much debt that the private economy is crowded out or manipulates the medium of exchange in a way that destroys the purchasing power of working class people.
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Once or twice a decade the UK may well join big US missions in its capacity as a first-class military power.
Christy notes that Mexico's population is young and that the purchasing power of the middle class continues to grow.
The challenge for the second group is to find sources of power with which to restore the balance of power with the investor class.
Rapid growth in credit, which was non-existent until fairly recently because of sky-high interest rates, has helped to boost the purchasing power of the middle class.
His principal aim was to hold the line against all those changes in the 19th century that threatened the power of his own class, the territorial aristocracy.
The new C-MAX Energi also has 60 more horsepower than the Prius plug-in hybrid considering full battery power, along with class-exclusive technologies such as hands-free liftgate and active park assist for easier parallel parking.
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The deeper worry among Turkey's secular elite is not about creeping Islam but over a loss of power to an encroaching class of pious bureaucrats and entrepreneurs that has become increasingly visible since Turgut Ozal, a modernising former prime minister, liberalised the economy after the generals' third and most recent direct coup in 1980.
Since the late 1990s, a seismic shift has occurred, in which the candidates themselves are becoming irrelevant as Political Action Committees, party committees, and Independent Expenditure committees have become more dominant, strengthening the power of the political class and the insider and DC elites who work on their own or in concert with party functionaries.
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Some retailers' profitability could suffer as they wait for the spending power of the emerging middle class to increase.
The Intel Atom processor S1200 product family is the first low-power SoC with server-class features offering as low as 6 watts1 of TDP.
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Large scale manufacturing, union power, a strong middle class and the music that became the soundtrack for American life all can claim roots in Motown.
According to Nakia Jean Lozoya, a marketing assistant at Tustin-based Peak Power Solutions, middle-class homeowners are leading the charge towards 100 percent renewable energy in Orange County.
These people are not only rich but also exceptionally clever, because America has become expert at sending its brightest to the same elite universities, where they intermarry and confer on their offspring not just wealth but also a cognitive advantage that gives this class terrific staying power.
Economic growth in emerging economies has produced a critical mass of middle-class consumers with buying power.
Both are competitive among sixes in the midsize luxury class in terms of power, smoothness and responsiveness.
Since then federal appeals courts have split on whether arbitrators have the power to interpret agreements to allow class actions.
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Facebook is selling Class A stock in its IPO, but the real power (and value) will be retained by holders of the Class B shares.
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The burgeoning middle class with high buying power is always missed.
The potential buying power of China's middle class is vast.
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At the least, the people who sacrifice their health to bring us power deserve secure pensions, world class health care and the opportunity to be trained in the industries of the future.
The justices also questioned whether an arbitrator had the power to bind thousands of absent class members, each of whom had signed their own arbitration agreements, to a class action when they might not want to belong to one.
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Akerele says that although the reality in Nigeria is that most people live in poverty, the rise of sectors such as telecommunications and the diversification of the Nigerian economy beyond oil and gas has created an emerging middle class with bigger spending power.
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The technology consists of a solar panel that charges a battery daily to power the projector used during the evening class.
Studies predict that the Chinese middle class will wield enormous spending power as it reaches 600 million-800 million people in fifteen years.
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