"New York City's public pay telephone network has incredible potential, " said Chief Information and Innovation Officer Merchant.
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But the Labour leader has defended the decision over public pay, saying it is "tough" if others disagree.
After the last one, the annual cost of public pay and pensions eventually swelled by 600 billion rupees.
And this month Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new initiative the city hopes will rejuvenate the city's remaining public pay phones.
This suggests scope for a real cut in public pay of around 5%, which could be delivered through a two-year pay freeze.
Big questions hovered: Would the 2003 wines be even more expensive than the sticker-shock 2000s, and if so, would a weak-dollar, recession-dogged public pay for them?
More generous and much more widespread pension provision boosts public pay by a further 12% compared with the private sector, according to the IFS researchers.
Though the number of people working for the government fell by 6.4% between April 2010 and April 2012, the government public pay bill (central and local) actually rose by 2%.
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Merchant and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot announced the winning prototypes from the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, a competition that engaged hundreds of urban designers, planners, technologists and policy experts to create physical and virtual prototypes that imagine the future of the City's approximately 11, 000 public pay telephones.
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In his Autumn Statement, the chancellor asked pay review bodies to "consider how public sector pay can be made more responsive to local labour markets", which could mean scrapping national pay rates for public sector workers and negotiating them locally.
Along with Croydon, the authority was one of only two London councils to award pay rises to three senior councillors in 2010, during a public sector pay freeze.
It is fundamentally wrong for those accepting the help of the American public to pay it forward and back by ignoring proper nutrition, thereby causing the public that helps them to assume even larger expenses down the road.
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We are very much the Cinderellas of public sector pay levels, and we have increasingly fallen behind the private sector and other public sector workers, such as NHS staff and the fire union workers' settlement, for example.
The 1% pay rise limit was put in place for two years in the Autumn statement, after a public sector pay freeze.
He announced that public sector pay rises are to be capped at 1% for two years.
Shadow business secretary Ken Clarke said public sector pay had to reflect "the current low level of inflation".
Mr Osborne said that public sector pay would be limited to an average of 1% including in 2015-16.
Chancellor George Osborne said in his first Budget speech there would be a two-year public sector pay freeze.
They can use a public sector pay freeze to achieve part of that.
And he suggested a public sector pay freeze of up to three years.
Like much of the Budget, the chancellor's decision to press ahead with local public sector pay bargaining was heavily leaked.
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Mr Lambert says the government should instead take "a serious look" at reducing both public services and public sector pay.
Now AMD is asking the computer-buying public to pay less attention to something that it used to consider supremely important.
Public companies pay a dividend because stocks are more attractive and easier to value if they produce income for their investors.
Mr Brown has ordered a review of senior public sector pay by the Senior Salaries Review Body to report by the Spring.
Some people argue that when there is a public sector pay freeze it is wrong to be helping the richest in society.
While ruling out "a complete free-for-all" on public sector pay, the authors claim greater flexibility in wage rates would improve work standards.
The answer, in a nutshell, is public sector pay and tax revenues.
The president of the RMT union, Alex Gordon, says Mr Balls's decision to back the public sector pay freeze will cost Labour votes.
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