But the collapse of Mycal, a big employer with once-powerful friends, is a sign that the system is under awful stress.
Yet most men in the state system still sign on each day, even if they sit about.
The Vertu Ti, meanwhile, runs on an Android operating system in a sign of its separation from former parent company Nokia.
QE3 could go on forever since there is no pragmatic sign adding money to the system will revive housing by any considerable measure.
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The new personal medical services contracts have been piloted over the past few years and ministers are confident that most GPs will sign up to the new system within four years.
Netflix still has far and away the best streaming service and so that these customers are no worse off, and we expect Netflix to see cancellations accelerate on its DVD business as it forces customers to sign up under its new system.
While the merger will have to overcome several political obstacles, it is a sign that the Greek banking system begins to respond to the economic crisis, and a vote of confidence by foreign investors that can become the model for other Greek and European banks.
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"I'm delighted to sign my contract at Norwich, I came through the City youth system and it's great to sign a two-year deal and carry on here, " he told the club's website.
The system allows them to sign contracts fixing the cost of their most important input for 12 months.
Regular bridge users can sign up to the existing FasTrak system which provides motorists with a tag fitted to the windscreen which is read electronically.
The incidents have renewed calls for a wider safety agreement that would require retailers to sign on to a binding inspection system that would alert workers and the public when a factory is unsafe.
The goal should be to sign players than can contribute within a system that leads to winning football.
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On Friday, dollar borrowing costs increased and crossed a new threshold, one warning sign of strain in the global financial system.
Consumer groups mainly see all the recalls of lead paint products as a sign of a flaw in the import system that needs fixing.
Although Mr Bush opposed any restrictions on soft money while he was running for the presidency, since taking office he has said he will sign any legislation which "improves the system" now in place.
One option for replacing the mandate is to push the uninsured into the new system by requiring them to sign up for insurance when applying for other government services, such as food stamps or school loans.
However, 71% claim they would accept credit or debit cards if there was a low cost, low hassle way of doing so. iZettle meets this need with an effortless sign-up and stress-free system that has one of the lowest cost and complexity profiles on the market.
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The country has since adopted e-voting, an e-health system and introduced the ability to sign documents using an electronic signature.
Yes, I do think it fair to say that wild gyrations are a sign of failure in an economic policy or system.
The third group of symptoms relates to what has been called hyperarousal, which means an emotional, mental and physical tendency to drive one's flight-or-flight nervous system too hard, a classic sign of which is a tendency to startle too easily.
It will study the system in New Zealand, where mandarins sign a contract setting out expectations.
The stumbles are the latest sign of frenzied speculation about Europe's financial system, including rumblings about a possible funding shortage among European banks.
Both conservatives looking to pare back entitlement spending and liberals hoping to make the tax system more progressive should be willing to sign onto reforms that flip this equation.
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Bernard Sucher, a veteran Russian banker and chairman of Alfa Capital, a unit of Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group, thinks Russian investors' interest in their own bourses is a sign of the development of the country's financial system.
Under the current, opt-in system, there are many more people who fail to sign the donor register and fail to inform their family of their wishes, even though they would wish to help others with the gift of their organs, and these people's organs may go pointlessly to waste without their consent.
The petition system is designed to build relationships, requiring an email to sign up and then emailing an answer if a petition you sign garners a response.
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Mr Zapatero's troubles began in late December when the Basque assembly voted for the Ibarretxe plan, which seeks to introduce Basque citizenship, an independent judiciary, a penal system, devolved responsibility for social security and the power to sign international treaties.
Mr. Starr, who broadly supports the Obama administration's efforts to overhaul the health system, has suggested that Democrats consider a system in which anyone who doesn't get insured can sign away access to the law's subsidies, insurance exchanges for buying policies and guaranteed coverage of pre-existing medical conditions for five years, rather than pay the fee.
It's a sign of how worried they are about the health of banks and the banking system.
She will be in Prague on Tuesday to sign a treaty with the Czech government to allow the radar for the missile system to be placed there.
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