Even in North America, it has been trying to push up prices of its small cars like the Focus and Fiesta by loading them with premium features in a bid to offset lost profits from slower-selling SUVs.
On the other hand, companies are still keen on strategic planning and on mission and vision statements: both are used by 74% of companies surveyed, and even more in North America.
Hero arrives in Europe in July with T-Mobile and Orange, Asia later in the summer, and North America even later in 2009.
Dixon has weathered the recent stagnant economy, and even grown, increasing his retail presence in North America by roughly 50 percent over the past couple of years.
Asia didn't feel the effects of the recession anywhere near as keenly as Europe and North America, and even in 2009, its emissions rose along with economic growth.
Smartphones and email-equipped feature phones have proliferated in even the most resource-dry areas of Asia, Europe and North America, but for many subscribers in Africa, SMS is the only option for text-based communication on the go.
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This time around, McLachlan says that even though inequality persists between men and women in North America, Lilith Fair is a want rather than a need.
Like the U.S. and other Western countries, China is determined to diversify its energy supplies away from the volatile Middle East region where it currently gets 60 percent of its oil, to areas in Africa, South America and even North America.
Despite wanting to be among the top ten in North America, it does not even rank in the top 25, according to data from Thomson Financial.
The aim is for the company in North America to be able to break even in a domestic market with annual sales of 10m vehicles.
That would be disastrous for PepsiCo which, even though it gets just 1% of its sales in North America from schools, relies on the exposure to help create young fans who will become lifelong munchers.
"There is a real opportunity for even city kids that want to come out and work in rural North America, " he says.
He said that the new government in Seoul backed multilateral diplomacy, even though talks between America and North Korea would also be necessary to break the deadlock.
Strong profits in North America are carrying the company right now, but even here there are some worries.
It's starting from a position of strength in North America and China, and it hasn't even begun to wring out global inefficiency.
Like it or not, IOCs still have lucrative (some would say larger) unconventional oil and gas plays they can go for in North America, Russia, East Africa, Australasia and even distinctly conventional MENA and Caspian regions.
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The FM radio's scanner "found" a station at virtually every legal frequency, even when no signal was present--as well as several channels unusable in North America.
While Fiat is sticking by its goal to sell 50, 000 of the Mexican-built cars in North America this year, the new dealership network isn't even up and running yet.
Though the proportion of city-dwellers has soared, they are different from the atomised individualists of Europe or North America: the extended family and traditional social networks have survived even in teeming Tehran.
But they still find use in less developed countries, and there are even scythe enthusiasts and competitions throughout Europe and North America.
Even though the NHL got great exposure by having its players take part in an Olympics in North America, disrupting the season does come with a cost.
The Chinese have totally outsmarted Moscow by keeping Russia on the hook, all while landing major supply side fish in Central Asia, Australasia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and even North America.
Vistar uses even cheaper technology--leased space on a geosynchronous satellite that is in view of all of North America--but its devices can't transmit as much data per burst.
We have seen precisely that everywhere such extreme equalization policies have been tried, from North Korea to Cuba to the old Soviet Union and China, and even in the early settlements in America.
With a sluggish recovery underway in Europe and North America and emerging markets enjoying unprecedented growth, metal prices are set to raise even further, making metals and mining-sector exchange traded funds potentially lucrative options.
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