And in Japan, overall business conditions declined in May, accounting for a fall in service sector confidence.
Across the Sunday political talk shows, officials expressed confidence in Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, saying they believe he has handled the scandal well and will get answers.
Norman Lamb, health minister and Lib Dem MP for North Norfolk welcomed the review, saying decisive action was needed not only to build public confidence in the service but also to rebuild the trust of staff.
With confidence that public service staff - the doctors, teachers, police officers, and the vital ancillary staff of all kinds - would rise to this challenge, with the better pay, training and incentives they needed and deserved.
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White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president has full confidence in the Secret Service and its ability to protect him.
Serco's Elaine Bailey said the company had "every confidence" in the service provided to the MoJ and would co-operate fully with the audit.
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The long-awaited report into failings at Stafford Hospital produced 290 recommendations aimed at "fundamental change" to prevent the public losing confidence in the health service.
The Council for Transparency promotes the consolidation of a governance model that, based on the Principle of Transparency and the Right of Access to Public Information, deepens democracy and promotes confidence in the civil service on the basis of participation and citizen control.
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Sources familiar with the position of the Secret Service in the dispute tell CNN that Director Lewis Merletti told Starr and other independent counsel staffers, in a February briefing, that should his agents be denied the privilege, "we will lose a president of the United States to assassination" and that trust and confidence between the protective service and its protectees will be lost.
Earlier Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan has the full confidence of the president after the scandal.
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It is an anarchist demonstration so it's very, very difficult potentially to police but I have confidence in the Metropolitan Police Service as to what happens, we'll have to wait and see.
And you need to have the confidence to make the arguments for service improvements.
The mobile-first consumer will plan and buy at the last-second, with high confidence, and high expectations of service quality.
The price increases may make Dish stock interesting as a play on improving consumer confidence and management attention to customer service.
In my view, at this time it is simply not possible to forecast enterprise service revenues for BlackBerry with any degree of confidence.
"BP has enjoyed a long and successful working relationship with North Star which has provided us with the confidence to widen and extend the service they provide to our business, " he added.
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The global network structure of the largest public accounting firms sells a brand image of strength, confidence, and cross-border seamless service delivery.
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But "these ongoing liquidity issues unnecessarily undermine confidence in the viability of the Postal Service among our customers, " said spokesman David Partenheimer.
Committee chairman Louise Ellman said there was little support for the proposals and the committee had no confidence that they would allow the coastguard service to perform as well as or more effectively than it does now.
Last Friday Tony Hughes, GMB union organiser at the East of England Ambulance service said ambulance members had expressed a vote of no confidence in Mr Newton as the chief executive of the ambulance trust.
Left untackled, the budget deficit, which at 11.2% of GDP in 2009-10 was larger than those of almost all other rich countries, would soon have undermined confidence in the government's ability to service its public debt.
The market's confidence in the U.S. to service its debt (without recourse to inflationary money printing) is much more affected by expectations of long-term growth than by dog-and-pony exercises on spending that future Congresses will revisit umpteen times in the future.
The best companies are highly confident in their abilities to provide a superior product or service and this belief spawns a culture of improvement and client confidence.
The Internal Revenue Service, working with the Department of Justice, continues to have confidence in the scope of its authority to administer this program.
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But Mr Broughton said that declining public confidence meant that there had to be a fundamental review of the service.
It is also about the accessibility of services, and the level of confidence people feel in their communities and about their trust in the service they receive from their police force.
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Weaver said public confidence in the mail system is essential to the survival of the Postal Service and the economy.
He said if the service cuts had not been made there would still have been a vote of no confidence due to the department's overspend.
The council cabinet member for schools Stephen Hayes said the priority was to restore confidence and ensure that the school has an "efficient and effective education service".
AuctionWeb, an online auction site, has managed to convey much the same sort of confidence online, and for less established merchants: individuals who use its service to sell anything from rare stamps to used computers.
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