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HKIA and is
According to the Guinness World Records, the passenger terminal of the HKIA was the world's largest airport terminal upon opening, and is at present the world's third largest airport terminal building, with a covered area of 550, 000 m² and recently increased to 570, 000 m².
Hong Kong International Airport ( HKG / HKIA ) is located on Chek Lap Kok island and started service in July 1998.
HKIA is an important contributor to the Hong Kong economy, employing approximately 60, 000 people.
Terminal 1 of the HKIA is currently the third largest airport passenger terminal building in the world, after Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3 is and Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3 is ).
The head office of Hong Kong Airlines is on Level 2 of the CNAC House ( 中航大廈, Cantonese: jung1 hong4 daai6 ha6, Mandarin: Zhōngháng Dàshà ) at HKIA.
Development costs are a concern: although the proposal would increase the number of direct jobs associated with HKIA to 141, 000 by 2030 and generate an ENPV of HK $ 912 billion ( in 2009 dollars ) over a 50-year lifespan up to 2061, the estimated cost is approximately $ 86. 2 billion ( 2010 ) Hong Kong Dollars, or HK $ 136. 2 billion ( at money-of-the-day prices ).
SATS HK is one of the four ground handling agents at the Hong Kong International Airport ( HKIA ).
It is also one of the four licensed ramp handlers at HKIA.
He is a Fellow Member and Past President of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects ( HKIA ) as well as Honorary University Fellow, Honorary Professor and former Head / Professor of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong.

HKIA and also
HKIA also operates one of the world's largest passenger terminal buildings ( the largest when opened in 1998 ) and operates 24 hours a day.

HKIA and by
In 2011 HKIA handled 53, 314, 213 passengers, making it the 10th busiest airport worldwide by passenger traffic.
It will increase number of direct jobs associated with HKIA to 101, 000 by 2030 ( from 62, 000 in 2008 ) and generate a total of HK $ 432 billion ( in 2009 dollars ) in economic net present value ( ENPV ) over a 50-year lifespan up to 2061.

HKIA and .
Moreover, passengers travelling from Shekou and Macau piers can even complete airline check-in procedures with participating airlines before boarding the ferries and go straight to the boarding gate for the connecting flight at HKIA.
The provision of cross boundary coach and ferry services has transformed HKIA into an inter-modal transportation hub combining air, sea and land transport.
HKIA simply could not keep up without an automated computer assisting.
In 2007, HKIA began the construction of a two-storey North Satellite Concourse ( NSC ) which opened in December 2009.

and s
The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator s meaning and the text s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

and network
In these events, the computer system acted as it should in identifying a file and then, following the user s orders to execute the file, exposed the computer and network to a harmful virus.
Under the new deal, HP will provide network, workplace, mainframe management, applications and systems integration services for GM s worldwide operations.
Femtocells are cells designed for use in residential or small business environments and connect to the service provider s network via a broadband internet connection.
In 2010, CIA documents were released indicating that " top US officials never believed Powers account of his fateful flight because it appeared to be directly contradicted by a report from the National Security Agency, the clandestine US network of codebreakers and listening posts.
Co-funded by the European Union and Europe s NRENs, the GÉANT network has been built and is operated by DANTE, on behalf of the European NRENs.
Haiti s network of roads consists of National Roads, Department Roads, and county roads.
* Route Nationale # 3 ( RN3 ) begins where RN1 heads northwest from Bon Repos, not far north of the road network s hub.
One of federal law enforcement s surveillance tools is ‘‘ Project Carnivore ,’’ a Justice Department Internet surveillance program that is administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) to access information flowing to and from a central processing unit on a network connection.
built in April 1992 and the country s first optical fiber cable network consisting of 480
The government has begun to repair the country s poorly maintained road network.
In 2004 Nigeria s Federal Roads Maintenance Agency ( FERMA ) began to patch the 32, 000-kilometre federal roads network, and in 2005 FERMA initiated a more substantial rehabilitation.
At the beginning of 2009, Poland s banking sector had 51 domestic banks, a network of 578 cooperative banks and 18 branches of foreign-owned banks.
On September 2012 MTS launched the country s first TD-LTE network, using the TD-LTE spectrum in the 2595-2620 MHz band it secured in February .< Ref >" MTS launches first TD-LTE network in Russia "
Sri Lanka Railways operates the country s railway network, which includes about of track.
gains in the country s sole mobile network, in partnership with South Africa s MTN.
Supply chain sustainability is a business issue affecting an organization s supply chain or logistics network and is frequently quantified by comparison with SECH ratings.
However, Cockburn claims that the result of the supply network wasn t military success but increased living standards for the contra leaders.
It also maintained and developed its links with maritime services, one of the initial arms of Australia s international telecommunications network.
Rod Eddington, in his 2006 Transport s role in sustaining the UK s productivity and competitiveness report, recommended that the congestion problem should be tackled with a " sophisticated policy mix " of congestion-targeted road pricing and improving the capacity and performance of the transport network through infrastructure investment and better use of the existing network.

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