"This is a slam-dunk tier-one partnership for us, " says Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy.
Headline tier-one capital ratios show all three banks at 11-12% (with BoA including Merrill Lynch).
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Its core, tier-one capital, at 6.2%, looks low, but the reduced dividend may help shore it up.
We see Wales as one of the best tier-one teams, but we will be trying our best.
There is also a difference from three to four years ago, when everyone was focused on tier-one cities.
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"This is a slam-dunk tier-one partnership for us, " says Scott McNealy, Sun's CEO.
Bank Negara has yet to grant MBf Finance Tier-One status, a requirement to be chosen as an anchor firm.
Its tier-one capital is 7.1% of its assets, against UFJ's 4.7% and around 6% for the other two big banks.
From my perspective there is a monumental difference between real tier-one talent and a primadonna who thinks of themselves as indispensable.
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Employees who represent true tier-one talent see themselves as part of the team seeking to make those around them more successful.
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Growth in property transactions in tier-one and major tier-two cities has moved into positive territory for the first time since the summer.
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China's tier-one and -two cities got hit first by strict government controls.
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Tier-one cities suffered the sharpest decline as many residents left their cities for vacations or to return to their ancestral homes during the holidays.
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If the changes go into effect, banks' tier-one capital ratios could fatten fast, allowing them to lend more without raising more money in a hostile market.
These tier-one ISPs then sell backbone access to smaller ISPs, which then sell it to yet smaller ISPs, and so on down the Internet food chain.
"We are going to be facing a very tough game, but this is a great opportunity for us to play against a tier-one rugby nation, " Tafua said.
Lots of other companies followed suit, including the tier-one underwriters.
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"The opportunity to acquire tier-one assets in low-risk regions, and ideally geographically suited to the growing Asian market does not come round very often, " he later told reporters, according to Reuters.
Even tier-one companies are under severe scrutiny.
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How have those tier-one markets performed?
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The Labour frontbencher warned the plan would "corrupt university admissions with a two tier system - one for the best qualified applicants, another for those with access to fatter cheque books".
Last month FIFA's executive committee announced plans for a new two-tier ethics committee -- one to investigate corruption, the other to rule on the cases.
By 2015 registered IT and application partners--such as one-tier agents, two-tier agents, system integrators (SIs), dealers and direct market resellers--will account for 39% of end-user-generated revenue in this market.
The top-tier investment banks have one talent that still commands huge fees: their brilliance at the life-or-death deal, such as a hostile takeover, a landmark privatisation or a public offering.
The average tier one risk-based capital ratio for U.S. commercial banks at the end of 2009 was 11.43%, according to SNL Financial.
They see a degree from a top-tier school as one of the few ways to give their kids a jump on the competition.
However, the extension of such schemes also risks institutionalising a two-tier society: on the one hand those connected to the conventional economy, and on the other a sub-culture that exists economically and socially outside the conventional economy.
The UAW has always resisted a two-tier wage system within one manufacturing site.
Many first-tier universities admit only one of ten applicants.
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