Japanese officials said Tokyo's attitude changed after the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its U.S. coordinator, Jody Williams, won the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month.
In the Philippines the company boasts Chinese fast-food chain Chow King, Red Ribbon bakeries, Mang Inasal grilled chicken outlets, Greenwich pizza parlors and its U.S. chain Burger King franchises.
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ImClone and its U.S. partner, Bristol-Myers Squibb (nyse: BMY - news - people ), issued a statement saying they will talk with the FDA about trying to get U.S. approval as well.
Kroenke Sports Enterprises and its U.S. football team, the Colorado Rapids, have a marketing alliance with Arsenal to promote the Gunners in the U.S., including via KSE's TV sports network, and make Arsenal's highly regarded player development expertise available to the Rapids.
Hitachi GST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California.
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Competitor AIG witnessed brand erosion after seeking funds from the government, and saw its U.S. life insurance market share fall from 2% in 2008 to below 1.3% in 2010.
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On Friday, the Canadian Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling made in late-May that the sale of BCE (nyse: BCE - news - people ) to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and its minority U.S. partners didn't adequately consider bondholders' interests.
Myriad Genetics (MYGN), a leading developer of molecular diagnostic and therapeutic products, is predictably on track to expand its pipeline and broaden its markets in the U.S. and overseas.
Its relations with tennis at Wimbledon and the USTA and its outfitting of U.S. Olympic teams broke ground.
When is the U.S. going to do some hard thinking about its and the U.N.
Separately, ESPN is considering winding down its ESPN Classic channel in Europe, Middle East and Africa and its non-U.K. ESPN America TV businesses.
The carmaker has lost money in the U.S. for seven years in a row, and has said its U.S. unit will return to profitability by 2013.
Top Glove, which gets 80% of its sales from latex gloves, has been smart enough to diversify and, like its U.S. rivals, is making nitrile gloves, using a nonallergenic synthetic product, but in doing so it loses an edge: its proximity to its Malaysia's rubber plantations.
After spending years closing plants and battling with its U.S. unions to get cost-savings, Ford is adding back production and is running at nearly full capacity, said Jim Tetreault, Ford's North American manufacturing chief.
The bottler, which operates in North America, Turkey, Russia, Greece and Spain, said it would refine its selling and service organization, lower its general and administrative expenses, make its supply chain more efficient and modify its defined benefit pension plans in the U.S. and Canada.
It has faced competition from generic versions of its treatments and the U.S. government has investigated its accounting practices, leading it to miss filing dates for its financial results that in turn caused it to technically default on its borrowings.
Given the popularity of the term, and its dangerous appearance in U.S. economic and academic debates, champions of freedom, intellectual entrepreneurs, and scholars should focus more on social justice.
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The U.S. is not the first country in recent years to lose its AAA credit rating and the U.S. can have its credit rating raised back to AAA in the future as well in a similar fashion to what has taken place in other countries.
Besides, this readjustment of foreign exchange holdings began several years ago and its impact on U.S. financial market so far has been very small.
Founded in 1969 as an assembler of circuit boards, Flextronics is based in Singapore and has its main U.S. office in San Jose, California.
Shelton, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concerning the recently published Rumsfeld Commission Report and its relation to U.S. policy on national missile defense.
It captured the imagination of the public, which followed the final days of "the ghost ship" in media reports and tracked its progress on Canadian and U.S. Coast Guard websites.
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Vice Admiral Burkhalter opened the Roundtable with an informative look at the "big picture" -- the strategic environment in the post-Cold War era and its implications for U.S. security interests.
Until "Fast and Furious, " Americans knew "very little" about the flow of U.S. firearms to cartels, said Josiah Heyman, an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at El Paso and an expert on violence in Mexico and its relationship to U.S. policy.
Winged Foot was designed by A.W. Tillinghast in 1923 and hosted its first U.S. Open six years later, when amateur Bobby Jones delivered one of the biggest shots in championship history with a 12-foot putt on the final hole to force a 36-hole playoff.
Until Europe decisively builds a firewall for its currency, and the U.S. definitively grasps its unsustainable economic platform of two vast deficits, the world economy will remain on an eccentric, out of control course.
The yellow metal did back well off the early session high as the U.S. dollar index moved up from its low and U.S. stock indexes weakened.
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In other news, the nearly nationalized American International Group announced plans to sell off a number of business units to pay off its massive and costly government loan, though it is retaining its U.S. property and casualty and foreign general insurance businesses.
Google Fiber and its launch in three U.S. cities (Kansas City, Austin and Provo).
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