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With this important acquisition, we now have more than 1,000 employees in the US serving key global and mid-tier clients. We are building on the double-digit revenue growth we experienced during the last three years, and have the strong base of skills and experience to fuel our global expansion.

Michael Travis

We are pleased that the contract with Tier will improve services to Virginia's child support clients. We expect the center will receive and respond to more than 1.4 million calls each year to assist families with child support questions.

Nick Young

We are a golf mecca. The pieces are in place to ... make us leap from being [an] also-ran [to] being very competitive in that second-and-third-tier of cities.

Richard Goldman

He didn't even have his good stuff today. Tonight felt like we were a second-tier team.

Marlon Byrd

In the world of children's books and illustrations, Eric is in the top tier. His illustrations are beautiful pieces of artwork in themselves.

Jim Morrow

For the next several years we will see a lot of core, top-tier providers in this market, with no clear leader.

Dr. Lawrence Roberts

Playing quality schools like Alabama and South Florida are always good to have on a schedule playing-wise. Conference games are definitely the most important. Stephen F. Austin and Texas State are some of the standout games, and we want to play them hard to garner the respect of the other top tier teams in the conference.

Cindy Piper

Most IT administrators focus on the network tier, deploying firewalls, intrusion detection, and other perimeter-defense or monitoring mechanisms, ... In addition, applications exposed to the outside typically employ encryption methods like SSL to provide privacy of communications on the Internet and to ensure the identities of the endpoints are trusted.

Mark Patterson

We'll rotate eight or nine guys that can start for us. We have tier one pitchers, but then we have a whole slew of sophomores and freshman we can use.

Bryan Kramer

But I'm no longer nervous about talking to enterprise customers about Linux and that is a big change. We consider Linux a tier-one platform that will be available for all our server products and we have made a major commitment to support it.

John Paul

We have a lot of common customers who use both our products together. Now we'll be able to provide a much more complete solution both in the back end and the middle application tier.

Andrew Mendelsohn

What we are planning on doing is offering a special package called a family-friendly tier, to give families another option.

Tom Simmons

These schools have seen a drop in suspensions and expulsions, a rise in GPAs, a rise in test scores, and more activity in extra curricular events. They [Waite High School] were a high- poverty school that was very low-tier in academics, and now they are equal to top schools in the state.

Joseph Kretovics

I think everyone's going to be happy with the split. It gives the small tier that playoff spot every year.

Gary Molea

It would be an opportunity for them to show off the product and [have subscribers consider an] upgrade to our digital tier.

Tom Haywood

Even with prices falling, companies like Sharp are going to be able to keep the second-tier manufacturers in China and Taiwan out of the market.

Stephen Hall

You're definitely looking at single digit margins, but Motorola will use the ultra low tier to attract consumers to its brand and eventually sell up more expensive models.

Ben Wood

Because of the market we service — enterprise accounts — we generally lead with a Tier One provider, such as [one from] IBM or Hewlett-Packard. A white box solution would come into play if a client has a very limited budget.

David Hall

I'm looking for dollar/Canada to trade within the well-defined C$1.1370-C$1.15 range ahead of the tier-one economic releases that are out this Friday.

Jack Spitz

Rollins was a big-time scorer in Tier II juniors.

Bill Mcdonald

Because I know they are in the top tier, I have a scorecard for those suppliers and top management meetings.

Bob Currey

Demand is growing. This is our response. We anticipated in 1997, when we published our ten-year strategy, that demand would grow among the world's leading financial institutions and multinational corporations for a top-tier law firm with the capability to advise on the full spectrum of major domestic and cross-border transactions and disputes across a range of jurisdictions.

Keith Clark

There are over 1,500 tickets sold to the performance, filling the majority of the main floor and grand tier. There are still some good seats available.

Thom Cooper

Tier one talent usually has a participation in the film's revenue streams, whether it's the gross revenue or net revenue. But top-tier talent is more likely to be participating and that also tends to be part of the cost equation.

Jeffery Logsdon

I think we should move step by step. Rome was not built in a day. Two players playing in a Tier Two event's quarters is not enough to prove we are reaching the top level.

Peng Shuai

Getting the costs down to $20 ex-factory is a big challenge for handset manufacturers and their semiconductor and component suppliers and we believe with our background we can help both Tier 1 handset makers and original design manufacturers to meet this target.

David Mcternan

Our deal right now is our second tier guys have to step up and take some of those four places (to qualify for the regional meet). Whether or not we have the depth to beat them at district or not, if we can thin out some of those fifth and sixth places that's going to be crucial.

Chris Mckinney

Tier 1 is a pretty big jump. The biggest difference is the speed.

Bob Stacey

We have listened to the market and developed the first-of-its-kind 'Quick Start' program to help the automotive supplier community quickly cut costs by enabling leaner processes. With these easily deployed, low-cost, no risk offerings, we expect the tier one community to quickly adopt our technology further building out our automotive ecosystem upstream to suppliers.

Gary Latham

It's like a three-tier cake. If it's a window box, I definitely want something to drape over.

Michael Hillegas

Offering a family tier to our customers is one more step in Comcast's efforts to provide a broad array of family-friendly programming.

Steve Burke

In the effort to keep up with the demands of customers, vendors are placing increased emphasis on self-service and Web-enabled CRM packages. This includes CRM software vendors moving their architecture from client/server, Web-enabled, and three-tier architectures to N-tiered architected Web-based applications.

Barton Goldenberg

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

Stephen Harper

I don't think everyone will bounce back. Investors are clearly more discriminating about the stocks they buy. They're looking at the top-tier names, not just Internet names.

Mark Cavallone

All they got to do is change one prescription to something that is not in tier one and you jump to tier two or tier three. It gets expensive.

Charles Mathis

No county has a 2005 deviation greater than its 1988 deviation, a year that was the worst for many counties. However, deviations for some counties in 2005 are large and in the 'second tier' of yield loses. While genetic improvements may have reduced yield losses, large negative yield deviations are still possible.

Gary Schnitkey

It's a first for her, and she earned it. She comes to practice, and she always takes the upper-tier workout ... . She doesn't panic. She runs with her legs and brain, she really does.

Chris Douthit

The American Music Awards are always one of television's highest rated awards shows because of the top-tier talent that performs and because of the quickness of the production. We are pleased to accept this remarkable collection of music television to our collection.

Bruce Dumont

It is the first time that these companies have admitted to major quantitative reductions in antibiotic use. And it's not just one company but a tier of companies — the top tier of companies.

Margaret Mellon

People pointed out that this is a good deal of history, especially the northern tier people from Minot, Watford City and Williston. They know the history quite well and like remembering what this building was all about.

Bruce Kaye

That is putting pressure on mid-tier EMS guys. They are trying to offer more support to win customers or keep customers.

Jim Rosenberg

I think tape's going to be around a long time, but it's being repositioned. We're still going to need tape to hold older backups and longer term archives because it's still the most inexpensive way to do that. The difference is that tape will be the second tier of backups, not the first tier anymore.

Dianne Mcadam

The ultimate aim is to assist the progress of the unions to the Tier 1 level.

Mark Egan

I love these nice, big, huge events. The problem is, the second- and third-tier books take a drop. Fans are only going to spend X dollars a month.

Dan Slott

By suddenly offering a two-tier system, AOL guarantees that over time those using the free delivery system will suffer from a degradation of service.

Gilles Frydman

It could take two or three years longer on the appellate level for the first tier -- that's the circuit court of appeals -- then it could take a couple of years ... in the Supreme Court.

Marvin Miller

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Alfred Kugel

We've absolutely called it a top-tier race.

Sarah Feinberg

I can't see a demand for a cable tier with no sports programming nor any of the big three cable news networks.

Matthew Felling

'Pharmacia' captures the focus of the new organization as an exceptionally fast-growing core pharmaceuticals business in the top tier of the industry.

Fred Hassan

We still feel like we're far apart on key issues, namely the two-tier system on wages and benefits, and wage parity with the rest of the industry.

John Dugan

This is something Yahoo has been trying to do for a long time: broaden its online presence into the mobile tier.

Avi Greengart

We believe there could be greater impetus for potential mergers among the second-tier players in 2006.

Frank Lee

From a competitive perspective, [a hybrid market] doesn't make any sense. [Amex] is a third-tier player in this marketplace, with shrinking market share; at a certain point, [it] has to take risks.

Sang Lee

This is all about selling a solution to small business instead of a value-priced PC with a glob of software. This is a tier one PC maker and a tier one software vendor both offering very aggressive value price.

Richard Carriere

Money and donations were sent out there for basic needs, like food and shelter. And in a situation like that, education is not in the top tier of needs. And it fits into our committee's mission of helping students continue their passion to learn about agriculture and work towards a career in agriculture.

Janet Kister

By investing in top-tier, expansion-stage companies funded by premier, early stage VC funds, we have kept our loss rate low and produced strong returns for our limited partners.

Steve Bird

Although we're making progress, we've clearly got more work ahead of us to improve baggage performance for our customers. We are committed to moving into the top-tier of this category in 2006.

Lee Macenczak

It's a great opportunity for me. It's a second tier team, but if I do well there is a good chance I'll get picked up by a team in their national league.

Tina Donahue

Will the government really hit the brakes? I doubt it. Much of the investment is following government instructions. It's in second- and third-tier cities. This is what the government wants. They've regained solid control over inflation.

Dong Tao

He was not a [Thomas] Jefferson or a [George] Washington. But he was a solid second-tier.

Dick Cheatham

Ours is probably in the top tier of shows that have such an engaged fan base. Fans really want to be involved and to provide feedback about what should happen with these characters, and this is a great way to interact with our audience.

Ilene Chaiken

The county wants to keep it as rural as possible. There's no way the rural tier could support all that growth. There's not enough infrastructure and there's not even public water or sewer in most of the area.

Jackie Brown

Right now, the second-tier jackpot is about $9 million, but that's expected to grow even more.

Tina Potthoff

Developer response has been pretty cool, ... just their middle tier.

Scott Woodgate

There are concerns about a two-tier National Health Service with rationing for the obese, and this information must not be used to promote that in any way. Doctors must remember their Hippocratic oath, whether patients are fat or thin.

Michael Summers

By legislating a two-tier system of relationships, Labor (government) has, in effect, created a form of legal apartheid based on sexual orientation.

Peter Tatchell

We are evaluating a family tier.

Tim Fitzpatrick

At current prices, even first-tier companies barely break even for monitor and notebook panels.

Jeff Kim

It's a phenomenon, and it has really taken hold in the industry, ... It really brings people into some of the smaller areas, the rural areas that are not like first-tier destinations.

Cathy Keefe

Significantly stronger competition is emerging. The second-tier player is gaining traction.

Tim Luke

They advertised that you should buy the sports tier when, at the very least, they knew there was a dispute. That's infuriating.

Jeff Shell

The mid-majors get that second-tier player who is willing to stay longer. Therefore, they develop a chemistry.

Doris Burke

I look for it to be a very tight game. Both of these teams are very fundamentally sound and very well coached. They both have outstanding top-tier players. I'm not picking that one.

Mike Conrad

We have a high degree of flexibility to reach out and touch our demographics. The Latino package is a prime example. We don't offer a Latino tier in every market because the market doesn't demand that. In Madison, a Latino tier is necessary and important to consumers.

Karen Broach

The bus schedule currently in use picks up the very young students (K-4) first. The three-tier bell system has the older students being picked up first.

Bob Richter

We can custom order for anybody. We have dozens of different fabric choices, and tier curtains and panels can be ordered as well.

Monica Procar

Five to 10 years ago we were a second tier brand. Now consumers say: 'I have a phone, or a TV, and it's fine. A few years ago it wasn't the right time to set our flat panel TVs as premium products, because they weren't.

David Steel

The effort to get agreement from whoever owns the data to move it to a lower tier is a huge challenge. Every business unit thinks the data they deal with is the most important in the company. Then the effort of actual migration and potential disruption to the business of migration is a problem.

Jim Damoulakis

We are planning more strategies besides these activities, including introducing more second-tier brands this year.

Cathy W. Hau

The market's got a great tone. Liquidity has taken off. We're seeing a rotation into some of the second-tier stocks. That tells you there's a rally on.

Tom Delzoppo

We see this technology development as a real breakthrough. Our Tier '3' data eradication offering removes all data - no matter the format - thus providing end users with an effective way to meet all of their Intelligent Asset Management needs.

Marvin Howell

The three of us all had worked for big tier-one consulting firms where it was common to put someone on a plane Sunday night, spend all week with a client, have him come back Friday night and repeat the procedure.

Jason Pohl

We're not totally getting rid of the three-tier pricing system.

Robert Rentsch

Our women's team is just not where it needs to be to compete in the Ohio Valley Conference. We need to move forward in our women's basketball program. Having said that, we need to make sure our coaches and players understand we are not going to compete at the mid-tier level or below in the OVC.

Jim Fuller

It's going to be top-tier users.

John Bucher

The family would like to extend our sincere thanks to the entire Southern Tier ... for all their tremendous support to the family back in Rochester.

Bill Sperr

Museums are one of the top tier tourism draws in the country. How well a particular museum does, of course, depends on what is unique about it, what people can see there that they can't see anywhere else.

Steve Powell

The mid-tier guys are the ones who would have been more at risk. Now, a lot of mid-tier guys are going to be able to get top dollar.

Ben Dogra

Envisages a two-tier system of electing a president.

Alexander Yakovenko

He's got to show he can raise money and be in the top tier of Democratic fundraising. This is the year where they give out invitations to the next round.

Steve Jarding

I am confident that top-tier performance is attainable in the near term. The retail bank has improved its performance at a rate faster than expected. Our corporate and specialty finance business continues to grow rapidly and also is performing above plan?We are entering the 21st century on very strong ground.

Robert Gillespie

Because we feel the IIHS crash tests provide valuable safety information for consumers, we created a second tier of recommended vehicles for which good results in both of the IIHS crash tests are mandatory.

Rik Paul

If you have more complexity within your sales plan, a homegrown solution becomes difficult. So many people think [sales plans are] easy to do, but when you start talking about credit assignments, overlays, tier or ramped rates, and adjustments when products get returned, you're talking about a lot of variables. More times than not, a homegrown solution simply can't handle it.

Bob Conlin

What China really misses is ... the mid-tier people who are the project managers. India's major strength is having that profile of people.

Sudip Nandy

Being a Tier 2 team, they played like a Tier 1 team. They played very well and I think they had a lot of heart. ... (Gorham Coach Eric Wales) has them believing in (their) system. They gave us a hard time.

Jay Mazur

What the French are proposing is just another tier of bureaucracy.

Chris Yates

The top executives get the potential Microsoft has. But the next tier of employees doesn't because of the stock price.

Steven Ballmer

Some firms will not be able to compete with the salary hikes of the top-tier firms. We will see which firms are really in the premier league and which ones just think that they are.

Ward Bower

If they put all the MS drugs, and all the cancer drugs, and all the HIV drugs on the same cost-tier plan, they're really not discriminating against one disease group. They're discriminating against anyone who must depend on higher-cost drugs.

Laura Caruso

I seriously doubt that the first tier makers will post a loss. Most of them will make money. We'll see single-digit operating margin rather than losses made in the first quarter of 2005.

Manish Nigam

CFC 's collaborative business payment solution, Business Payment Connection, is being offered by community banks to small and mid-tier businesses to accelerate cash flow to fuel their growth, ... All of my instincts tell me it is time for a B2B payments breakthrough, and I see this opportunity to use my professional and personal experiences to assist CFC in bringing this to bear.

Dennis Lynch

After six pretty good years it's beginning to look a bit stale and like it does not have that crucial next tier.

Nigel Roberts

I have some wonderful kids to work with. They are in the upper academic tier.

Daniel Edwards

It will be much better this year. Besides BT and Vodafone, we will have more carriers in tier 1 companies.

Hu Yong

That's why we have to run faster than the pack in order to close the gap and get ahead -- or be relegated to this (lower-tier) category indefinitely, ... If what we want to do is build the future, create better jobs, raise incomes and create opportunities for our children, staying in the lower category is not good enough.

Henry Cisneros

We have heard from a number of users in Australia, particularly the small to mid-tier users, that perhaps they are not getting the attention they feel they should be getting from HP when they look to migrate platforms.

Matthew Boon

They're still going, that middle tier, you can't hold them. The money is too good in the UK. We need to find ways to counter that financially.

Ewen Mckenzie

So in essence, what we're doing is providing a top tier of television and movies right at the customer's fingertips, which is a little different from what research shows as cable's VOD, which is usually the destination of last resort.

Eric Shanks

Detroit, when it comes to the quick casual restaurant business, has done extremely well. When you look at the volume compared to other cities, Detroit is always on the top tier. You have a very strong workforce that tends to eat out every day.

Eric Schmitt

We had a very snowy early January (2005), and that ended up being very problematic for casinos in the northern tier ...

Ed Feigenbaum

Even in Asia, China is ranked below those first-tier countries and regions in the level of golf, and we need to get up a gear as quickly as possible.

Zhang Xiaoning