Corporate Governance is not a standard class in most B-schools, showing up as an elective if at all.
Even ministers were seen travelling standard class with the rest of us - although they occasionally found themselves upgraded courtesy of First Great Western between Wales and London.
What seemed to matter was the claim that Mr Osborne didn't - or his aides didn't - seem to think he should have to suffer the indignity of sitting with the riff raff in standard class.
George Osborne was forced to pay for an upgrade after sitting in a first-class train carriage with a standard-class ticket.
In 2010, it introduced a whole new travel class, called standard premier, which is priced between standard and business class.
In the less cossetted standard-class carriages, the traditional English apprehension of foreigners is more in evidence.
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Economy plus seats are standard coach class seats near the front of the coach cabin with three to five extra inches of legroom.
Passengers in the new section get a standard coach class seat that offers 50% more recline plus four additional inches of legroom and complimentary cocktails.
Considering no one can save every dime they earn, not even quarter-millionaires, all bets are off that a guy earning that standard middle class pay is going to become rich in his or her lifetime.
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He said his firm would put in place an "attractive" fare structure, including a 15% reduction in standard tickets and new categories of fares, including a new class between standard and first.
In essence Rolls-Royce makes one piece of kit, with multiple applications, to a world-class standard.
Ideally, those disciplines should be the ones that, if done at world-class standard, create the most economic value for your business.
In standard three-class layout, the A380 can hold 555 passengers.
On its website, Virgin Trains warns travellers they will be charged an excess or penalty fare if they board a train without a ticket or attempt to change from standard to first class without a first class ticket.
First Great Western (FGW) announced on Tuesday it is cutting some announcements including one which tells passengers they cannot smoke, the location of standard and first class seating and 'mind the gap' at stations (where there is no gap).
Or does what happened with Zynga merely begin and end with the benefit of the doubt and the standard ambulance-chasing class action lawsuits?
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S. has set the standard in first-class rafting, sea kayaking and multi-sport vacations, with destinations and unparalleled experiences on over 35 rivers and coastlines of the world since 1969.
Investment, consulting and project management company Vicon wants to redevelop the castle itself as the "centrepiece" of a development that proposes "a world-class championship-standard 18-hole golf course, clubhouse and educational golf academy, new whisky distillery, homes, retail and a food and drink centre of excellence".
Right now, the gold standard in cholesterol medication is a class of drugs called the statins, which prevent the liver from making cholesterol from fat.
While there is no standard definition for what qualifies as Class A, Class B and Class C commercial office buildings, the vast majority of definitions used consider the following criteria: age, location, building infrastructure and ownership.
Reynolds notes as well that by 2001 the Census Bureau was reporting that the poor enjoyed as much or more of the indicia of a comfortable, modern standard of living as the middle class 30 years before.
Some Class 2 lenses beat the standard: Avaira, for example, block at least 75% of UV-A radiation and 99% of UV-B radiation, according to the package insert.
In teaching maths, for instance, both those countries spend more time on basic arithmetic than on deeper mathematical ideas, emphasise mental arithmetic, rely on standard teaching manuals and favour whole-class (as opposed to group) teaching.
Table 3 below provides a summary of the annualized standard deviation and returns for each asset class, the weighted average risk and return and the total portfolio risk and return from January 1979 through December 2009.
Just maintaining the real, long term, U.S.economic growth rate of 3.2% from 1947 to 2007 would have doubled our GDP of today 4 times, meaning a GDP 16 times as large as today, In that future, the poor of the time will have the standard of living of the American middle class in 2065.
Ditto for whether the absolute standard of living of the poor and middle class improves or declines.
It will compete with luxury standard-bearers like the Mercedes S-class and BMW 7-series.
In becoming the first Nobel-class economist to advocate the gold standard it suggests that his greatest contribution to human flourishing may lie ahead.
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Now Manuel will be the standard-bearer for what was considered a weak class for quarterbacks.
The B-Class Electric Drive can be recharged at any standard household power socket.
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