The Class A shares offered to the public carry one-tenth of the voting power of the Class B shares held by team ownership.
The challenge for the second group is to find sources of power with which to restore the balance of power with the investor class.
Class B shares have ten times the voting power of Class A shares, however only the latter can be publicly traded on the Nasdaq.
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Since the late 1990s, a seismic shift has occurred, in which the candidates themselves are becoming irrelevant as Political Action Committees, party committees, and Independent Expenditure committees have become more dominant, strengthening the power of the political class and the insider and DC elites who work on their own or in concert with party functionaries.
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Christy notes that Mexico's population is young and that the purchasing power of the middle class continues to grow.
Rapid growth in credit, which was non-existent until fairly recently because of sky-high interest rates, has helped to boost the purchasing power of the middle class.
His principal aim was to hold the line against all those changes in the 19th century that threatened the power of his own class, the territorial aristocracy.
Some retailers' profitability could suffer as they wait for the spending power of the emerging middle class to increase.
Although they own just 4% of Ford 's (nyse: F - news - people )common stock, the family controls 40% of the voting power through its Class B shares.
Eventually society exhausts the carrying capacity of the truly productive and leverages itself with so much debt that the private economy is crowded out or manipulates the medium of exchange in a way that destroys the purchasing power of working class people.
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Facebook is selling Class A stock in its IPO, but the real power (and value) will be retained by holders of the Class B shares.
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Never before, I said, could aspiring journalists write, shoot photos and video, produce and publish without having to grovel at the feet of an elite professional class wielding the spoils of power.
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The two companies are pushing for a new class of machines that combine the power of a personal computer and the portability of a personal digital assistant.
The technology consists of a solar panel that charges a battery daily to power the projector used during the evening class.
As momentum changers go, I think we can all agree the 30 minute mass power outage now goes to the head of the class.
Just past midnight, the Senate passed, by a 52-47 vote, the GOP budget bill that Republicans say will balance the budget by 2002, salvage the Medicare program, return power to the states, and hand the middle class a tax cut.
Although the U.S State Department subsequently implemented a special immigrant visa program for Iraqi and Afghan translators and interpreters, the creation of this class of refugees is a testament to the power of language politics, and an example of the fallout from American insufficiencies in this area.
Competition over how best to increase growth and opportunity for all Americans, especially the middle-class and those struggling to escape poverty has the power to change the trajectory of political power in the years immediately ahead.
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In theory, the greater transparency in respect of what executives are paid, combined with the new compulsion for companies to stick to pay policies agreed with investors, should change the balance of power between investors and boardrooms, in favour of the owning class and away from the managerial class.
Since then federal appeals courts have split on whether arbitrators have the power to interpret agreements to allow class actions.
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The Uptime Institute pioneered a widely adopted metric, with rankings from Tier I through Tier IV that quantify the reliability of megawatt-class power systems.
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The justices also questioned whether an arbitrator had the power to bind thousands of absent class members, each of whom had signed their own arbitration agreements, to a class action when they might not want to belong to one.
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At the least, the people who sacrifice their health to bring us power deserve secure pensions, world class health care and the opportunity to be trained in the industries of the future.
Princess Margaret (who disports herself with two men in the Caribbean), the black-power advocate Michael X, and various kinky upper-class swells are among the players.
Both are competitive among sixes in the midsize luxury class in terms of power, smoothness and responsiveness.
The burgeoning middle class with high buying power is always missed.
In other words, it is the shared quest for an answer to why female Wal-Mart employees make less than men thatgives lawyers the power to assemble them into one huge class action.
Faith in government is seductive in its appeal to the governing class who gain legitimacy and power with their promises of increased economic security and to those in the Washington media who share their limelight.
This is the Democrats chance to recapture that narrative, to turn the discussion back to the dignity of the middle class, to the importance of policies that do not simply push power and capital ever upward.
In January's election, new politicians such as Yair Lapid, finance minister, rose to power on promises to help the middle class at a time when Israel needs to cut spending and raise taxes to close a growing budget deficit.
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