Though ministers say they have no immediate plans to do so, rail boosters fear the spectre of Dr Beeching, the man who axed nearly a quarter of the system 40 years ago.
All the same, the proportional system for choosing a quarter of the seats, which allowed so many of those midgets to get into the last parliament, is still untouched, storing up instability for a time when the balance of power between the big blocks once again becomes more delicate.
In the fourth quarter, 50 percent of phones sold ran on the Android operating system, compared to 30.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, but down from 52.5% in the third quarter.
This quarter she made changes to remove bureaucracy, and created a system where employees are all aware of their key objectives and goals during a quarter.
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Wasteful discards are reckoned to account for a quarter of total catches under the current quota system.
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Carly Fiorina, HP's chief executive, blamed the unit's poor performance on the absence of a traditional uplift at the end of the quarter and disruption caused by a new supply chain system.
The report suggests that public companies stop their issuing of earnings guidance, or at least offer an annual guidance that includes several earnings per share numbers instead of the current system of including one EPS number per quarter.
Following the success of the communication test exercise of 10 August 2011 involving 31 National Tsunami Warning Focal Points from the region, a full-scale exercise named NEAMWave12 is planned in the fourth quarter of 2012 to test the readiness of the system and of the Member States.
Total System Services (TSS) reports its third quarter earnings on Tuesday, October 23, 2012.
Total System Services (TSS) reports its fourth quarter earnings on Tuesday, January 22, 2013.
How many people that wanted to buy in the December quarter were willing to wait a month to get their system?
However, Mr Rich said the current pattern was likely to continue, where one-quarter of student debt is held outside the student loans system.
Ryder System (R) is hoping its third quarter earnings report on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 will help continue the momentum its stock price has enjoyed.
Certainly Android has established itself as the largest smartphone operating system, accounting for, by the third quarter of this year, 75% of shipment volumes of smartphones.
Dataquest, a San Jose research firm, also predicts big things the operating system, saying Linux will account for almost a quarter of worldwide server appliance revenue by the year 2003.
If it can, Asian importers will pay as much as 90% more than a year ago when the new pricing system is first applied to the April through June quarter.
The FDIC says that the banking system is on the mend given data from its second quarter Quarterly Banking Profile.
In America, by contrast, the baby-boom generation meant that the Social Security system had five contributors per beneficiary in 1960, a quarter of a century after its introduction.
Northeast Utilities System looks to keep the momentum going when it reports second quarter earnings on Thursday, July 26, 2012.
This quarter's star will be Apple's OS X Leopard operating system.
According to NPD, Android was the operating system on 33% of all smartphones purchased in the second quarter, followed by Research In Motion at 28% and Apple's iOS at 22%.
In the past 20 to 30 years, banks have gone from the major suppliers of credit at the heart of the financial system to just another supplier of credit, maybe accounting for a quarter to 20% instead of 60% or 70%.
At one point, the Trust was having to throw away almost a quarter of all the food it served but since the introduction of a new system based on steaming its meals, and patients choosing from a menu the day before, the rate of wastage has halved, to around 11%.
With the iPhone accounting for 58% percent of Apple's revenue in the quarter ending in March, Apple is in a constant race to update its operating system to beat back the growth of phones running Android.
We now have - the state of Massachusetts is now saddled with a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar debt over his government-mandated health care system.
Rural India's purchases of chyawanprash, an ayurvedic paste that eases digestion and bolsters the immune system, outpaced urban India's by over six percentage points in the second quarter.
While Microsoft's revenues rose in the most recent quarter, 75% of its overall revenues comes from elements that are not pinned to the operating system.
Even if as many as one-quarter of all beneficiaries moved into a low-cost plan offered in their area, the new system would still result in more than a third of all beneficiaries facing higher premiums.
However, in order to take advantage of the sharp increase in iron ore prices in the past few years, miners decided to move to a quarterly contract system, whereby the contracts would be priced based on the average price in the preceding quarter.
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Nearly a quarter of Microsoft's revenues, and half of its operating income, came from its Windows operating system division at the end of 2008.
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