The skeletal 737 remains that had been rusting outside TAP's shop for the past seven years were hurting TAP's maintenance image, Chief Executive Nestor Koch said.

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So Mom can use the 5% for a luxury cruise, then tap the principal for condo maintenance.

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The judge then tossed out a guilty plea entered before trial by Kimberlee Chase, a TAP sales manager charged with bribing a health maintenance organization.

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Enterprises can deploy M2M technology now to reduce the cost of field service management through remote maintenance, they can optimize fleet scheduling with real-time location and traffic data and they can tap into new business models such as usage-based (or pay-as-you) go billing.

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