From 1993 to 2004, Aneel was a top operator at PeopleSoft.

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To help things out, he has led an investment in GoodData, a top cloud operator.

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If that was an understandable misjudgement against a top class operator, the dismissal of Regan West certainly was not.

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Intent on being Japan's top broadband operator (high-speed web, telephony and interactive TV), Softbank's BBTechnologies has already laid pipe for 85% of the population.

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Another no-brainer scenario for a top golf tour operator is when you are planning a truly luxurious and over the top trip: just decided to give yourself a spur of the moment whirlwind golf trip through Europe that visits Royal County Down, Ballybunion, Muirfield and Valderrama, linking these epic but hard to get on courses in different countries by helicopters and private jets?

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When Malone arrived, TCI was a top-10 cable operator, with 400, 000 subscribers.

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My guess is, however, that their demagoguery is working in the sense that the average taxi-cab or beauty-parlor operator probably thinks that raising the top tax rates affect only millionaires and billionaires.

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