If your products are service intensive, how difficult is it for your customers to navigate to service facilities?
In recent years, EADS has been building assembly and service facilities in Alabama and securing the support of targeted congressional delegations.
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Second, national health reform will not dismantle IHS. American Indians and Alaska Natives will continue to have access to their Indian health service facilities.
American firms in particular have long favoured Ireland as a place to set up factories and run service facilities thanks to its well-educated labour force and low corporate-tax rate.
Along those lines, last year the National Business Group on Health and food service facilities and management provider Sodexho U.S.A. launched a toolkit to help employers create healthier eating environments and provide nutritious, affordable choices.
Built in the 1970s, the harbour has been given Blue Flag status by the Foundation for Environmental Education in recognition of both its effort to protect the local environment and its high standard of safety and service facilities.
But the airline is operating better now, with profits up and new planes and new investments improving service and facilities.
Blount Boats in Rhode Island recently reached agreement with South Boats Special Projects to build US-flagged catamarans to service offshore wind facilities.
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Agreements would also have to be reached with the Department for Transport on security fencing, airline operators on hangars and the fire service on what facilities it would require to keep costs down.
But investments will still be necessary, not only to ensure that people have the technical skills and the literacy level needed to use information technology facilities and service them, but also to create content that reflects the interests of that part of the world.
As I noted in my February 24 column, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that for new power-generating facilities entering service in 2016, onshore wind power will be 49% more expensive than conventional coal over the lifetime of the respective facilities, offshore wind will be 90% more expensive than coal, solar thermal will be 155% more expensive than coal, and solar photovoltaic will be 295% more expensive than coal.
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There are six active U.S. LNG terminals, with 40 more marine LNG facilities proposed to service the U.S. market.
On the other hand, some analysts contend that U.S. Airways could realize hundreds of millions of dollars in synergies and pick up assets (like airplanes and facilities) that service several vital hubs on the cheap.
The committee was also briefed on a consultation on Shared Services, a policy that included the concentration of "back office" facilities for the health service in a small number of locations.
While Open Placement also ostensibly focused on care coordination (discharge planning), their service was much more like an online traveling booking service, but involving secondary care facilities, and geared to the needs of hospital discharge coordinators.
Aiming to woo highbrow travellers who require more than a week in the destination they're visiting, apartment hotels provide the luxury of a spacious, well-designed apartment with the added benefits of top notch amenities, such as concierge service, daily housekeeping, dining facilities and business and fitness centres.
The facilities, restaurants, and service are all top notch, and I have never been disappointed.
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Among the council's proposals are a plan to allow soup run operators to use existing facilities to provide a nighttime service.
"There is a tremendous amount of expansion, " said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, speaking of projects at existing facilities.
It was asked to provide the service because the school does not have the facilities to offer hot food.
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These facilities may charge a fee for this service.
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Colin McConnell, director-general of NIPS, outlined the review of the service's estate strategy, including the improvement of facilities for young and women offenders and the decommissioning of Magilligan by 2018.
They also predicted an increase in demand for bilingual facilities in education, local authorities and the health service.
"The facilities next to the station - the former Wiltshire Ambulance Service HQ buildings and the former training college - are surplus to requirements, " he said.
Whatever price the affiliate paid its parent for access to its facilities could then also be the price charged to competing service providers, who would be responsible for their own equipment and technology.
The health service also has supplies of emergency breathing equipment, protective equipment and decontamination facilities for staff.
"School catering facilities may well move to an open all hours type of service, offering hot and coldd foods from breakfast to supper, " said Mr Wasson.
When I toured the island with National Park Service (NPS) staff in August 2010, Jim Calvinperez, the facilities manager and chief engineer, told me that 2, 000 gallons of diesel fuel had to be shipped to the island weekly in order to keep the generators in the power plant humming.
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The amenities most players crave, according to some team travel directors, are round-the-clock room service (lots of late post-game meals), top notch fitness facilities (bench players need to get their workouts in), and blocks of rooms segregated from the other guests (who wants to hobnob with the commoners during downtime?).
In recent years the service has treated about 50, 000 patients annually, prompting the move to larger facilities.
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