In Iran Barbie is banned outright (but consumers can buy locally made, plumper dolls, such as Sara and her male pal Dara).
Campaigns urge shoppers to buy locally grown fruit in season, and to shun cherries in winter or green beans flown in from Kenya.
Eden Valley initiatives include a campaign to get people to buy locally, moves to supply fast broadband services to rural areas and a hydro-power scheme for the River Eden.
In fact, my members have - some of them have a lot of what we call unrestricted funds that they raise privately and they do buy locally, but only in small amounts, and they can't see it replacing larger scale food aid.
It is possible for outside investors to buy Asian debt locally, but it is not easy.
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LG, buy most materials locally.
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It also has initiatives promoting farmers' markets, having schools buy their foods locally, feeding low-income children nutritional foods during the summer, and encouraging grocery stores to operate in so-called "food deserts" that have little or no access to supermarkets that sell fresh and affordable foods, Vilsack said.
That assumes, however, that Russians will buy gold coins issued locally doubtful, given the population's corrosive, and usually justified, distrust of all public institutions.
The feds agreed to move high-paying federal jobs to Carlsbad and to buy lots of supplies locally -- sometimes from city officials running side businesses.
Agencies can now buy more of the grain locally rather than having to import it.
Japanese banks borrow at near zero rates locally, and buy up Brazilian bonds internationally.
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Commercial relations between the nations are already tense because of recent Indian regulations that would impose a sweeping "Buy India" mandate, requiring that large portions of high-tech products purchased by the government be manufactured locally.
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