Too many labour-law changes have created two-tier markets, with an inner tier remaining protected but an outer one on temporary or short-term contracts.
Yet early Chinese OEMs offered only low-tier phones with no attempts at branding or differentiation.
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Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire are all upper-level authorities in a two-tier system with district councils like Cheltenham, Tamworth, Wyre Forest and Stratford-on-Avon underneath them.
Also in 2012 they began an own store strategy in China aiming to develop in the second and third tier cities with a strategy of hiring local Chinese managers.
Mr. Tikvesa, who is 6-feet, 5-inches tall and calls strangers "boss, " gets printouts of top-tier customers with tight connections and has access to flight updates and gate information on his smartphone.
In a day and age when most flagships have 4.65- to 4.8-inch screens (or bigger -- hello, Galaxy Note II), it's refreshing to see a top-tier handset with more compact dimensions.
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He claimed this had created a two-tier system with some employees who were facing dismissal threatening to make claims against their employer based on gender or racial discrimination to win a larger payout.
Upgrades will be tier-for-tier, with Vista Home Premium users getting to switch up to Windows 7 Home Premium when the time is right, Vista Business to Windows 7 Professional, and Vista Ultimate users getting an upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate.
It would make more sense to try her out with a top-tier client first, along with a leader, to get her accustomed to that level of intensity.
Business leaders have told us that as a country, we should prioritise skilled Tier 2, workers with a job offer rather than highly-skilled Tier 1 workers without a job offer.
Doug McAvoy said the policy would create a two-tier system, with preferential funding for the few.
First, Northridge was a sleepy, third-tier commuter school with nothing like the pressure-cooker politics of its elite neighbor.
The controls created a two-tier market, with different exchange rates quoted on-and off-shore.
So my best prospects said no, leaving me to move onto the second tier, now with a vastly improved story.
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The truth is that when it comes to profitability Wegner is indeed a second-tier customer compared with other customers with higher checking balances.
Campaign group Suffolk Action For Truth had objected to the plans saying the move to a two-tier system coincided with recent poor performance.
However, the union Unison said its members feared the creation of a "two-tier" workforce with people doing the same job on different terms and conditions.
That's why many top-tier villas come with phalanxes of personnel and also offer private transport -- via luxury car, boat or helicopter -- to zip guests anyplace they desire.
What surprised me about the blog analysis was just how far one of my fave sites has climbed into the top tier of blogdom with some 12M monthly uniques.
Then schedule 3-6 meetings with Tier 2 prospects.
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The union also wanted the introduction of a single pay arrangement for cabin crew staff, rather than the existing two tier system, with staff who joined after 1997 being paid less than those employed before that date.
The proposal for a two-tier SPL, with 10 teams in each division, and changes to the calendar mirrored the views of former First Minister Henry McLeish, who published a couple of days later the findings of his year-long review on behalf of the Scottish Football Association.
There has been some talk about Bangladesh dropping down as part of a two-tier Test system and I favour that, but only with a top tier of nine.
In its School Organisation Review, Suffolk County Council is replacing the three-tier system of primary, middle and secondary schools with the two-tier system which cuts out the 40 middle schools.
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".
One tier has to do with the idea that in different countries, different payment methods are more widely used.
We are now working with a Tier 2 investment bank which is looking to outsource its securities back office.
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Zipcar is likely to launch into 2-3 new markets every year from 2012 with some tier-2 launches like Sacramento.
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Banco Santander appears adequately capitalized, with a Tier I capital ratio of 10.8%.
Most important, they add a third-tier appeals court, with members to be partly appointed by the king rather than chosen by fellow judges.
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