His plan is to slash benefits to retirees, including pensions and healthcare, and cut already minimal services to the bone.
I gladly paid a minimal service call charge, which was significantly less than the fee that had been approved.
The state provided minimal services, so whoever showed up and stuck around became an important source of aid in the camp.
For now he is maintaining minimal services using contributions from other nations, including the United States, and from new fees and taxes gradually being assessed in Kosovo itself.
International aid organizations, like the United Nations refugee office, Unicef and the World Food Program, have provided minimal services, like daily water tankers and plastic sheets for shelter.
Call it the low-cost airline model: offering a minimal service that is safe and reliable, then letting consumers pay for frills and extras if they like.
Aside from small commercial fisheries, these sleepy oceanfront enclaves offer no attractions other than minimal services for summer people who own homes -- yacht or beach clubs, a restaurant or two.
Corocoran added, "The whole goal is to open with minimal services to get our people back in there, where they've been going for 20 years to see their friends".
The fact that Connecticut sets its own Metro-North fares increases the likelihood that the transportation authority will opt for a fare increase plan that entails minimal service cuts, New York transit officials said, because any service changes would have to be negotiated and approved by Connecticut.
The rise of the small airlines is sweet vindication for Donald Burr, the creator of People Express, which became an instant success in the 1980's with minimal service and cheap prices, only to vanish a decade later in the face of the major carriers' counterattack.
"These tactics include shutting down the consumer's D.S.L. connection and requiring the consumer to order an entirely new D.S.L. line -- a process that typically takes weeks or months -- even though the requested change can be accomplished in a short period of time and with minimal service disruption to the end user," stated the 35-page complaint.
