Congressional investigators reported last week that they could find no evidence of such service.
It recommended a further review takes place with the aim of making such service more available and flexible.
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One such service is the Counterweight Programme where experienced dieticians give nurses and GPs training and support over six months.
The plans speak to the wireless industry's zeal to improve Internet access on cellphones and increase the lucrative data charges consumers pay for such service.
Three such service members, speaking to CNN on the condition we wouldn't use their real names, all used the word "relief" when asked about the repeal.
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Some high schools have made such service a graduation requirement, while many more have organized volunteer opportunities for students as a way of developing positive civic, social and personal values.
Forrester's Tom Gormley argues that such service providers could become the utilities of the next century, providing an essential service with all the reliability and security of the electricity or telephone company.
Google faced a similar battle when its founders made the tough decision to layer an agnostic search service with paid ads, and balancing such a service for a consumer market has remained an algorithmic challenge for Google ever since.
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In the most extreme instances, some households have canceled their cable packages entirely a process known as "cutting the cord" and relied on a lower-cost alternatives such as Netflix or another service such as Hulu.
The big question though is, well, how do you make such a service profitable?
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Another important facet of the story is the potential demand for such a service.
Offering such a service, or not offering it, could enable airlines to differentiate themselves on particular routes.
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They're apparently the first company to offer such a service in North America.
Such a service could even help with recruiting, a particularly lucrative market.
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Increasingly, corporate purchasing decisions are influenced by nontechnological attributes such as service and support or leasing programs, he said.
Such a service will probably prove increasingly sought after and popular given the upswing among older Americans in volunteering.
NC4 Corporation, a ten-year old company that has turned security into a profit center by providing such a service.
In fact industrial giant General Electric uses one such backup service for all of its hundreds of thousands of user workstations.
The Obama administration decided in 2011 that contraception counted as such a service, citing the health benefits of planned pregnancies for women.
The challenges in offering such a service are less technical than administrative.
Now, the entrepreneur may truly believe that he can deliver such a service and make billions of dollars for investors while doing so.
Google is not the only company offering such a service and has come late to a market pioneered by a company called Overture.
My friend disagreed arguing that the demand for such a service would be low as corporations usually had that sort of thing under control.
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Such a service would go a long way in eliminating infection spread within aircraft. iReport.com: Have swine flu fears altered your travel plans?
Satellite-based systems, such as service offered by Row 44, offer faster speeds, more bandwidth and global coverage over oceans, but aren't as developed yet.
On the other hand, those who would ordinarily be the most aggressive adopters of such a service are more likely to become Netflix subscribers.
Perhaps you should start a company to provide such a service?
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Such a service would appeal to the many phone users who prefer to text rather than exchange emails as well as people with less sophisticated cellphones.
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For one thing, the retailers complain, it ignores the elements other than price which might make a shopper choose one store over another, such as service.
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