But the industry, perhaps even more than the World Trade Organisation, has the lawmakers' ears, so tighter laws may be on the way.
But Enron may be more than the world's biggest corporate disaster.
But I think if you look at history, sometimes what countries need for their sense of self-respect, what they need in terms of recognition from the world is more than the world can give them.
Nike said it was betrayed and misled, though certainly no more than the world was deceived by Woods, who implied or allowed marketers to infer that his great character was at the root of his athletic success.
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As a prelude, I say that the USA has the biggest economic power and has the most powerful and most modern military arsenal and spends on this war and its army more than the world spends on its armies.
IBM's Jasinski estimates that, for searching for smallpox drugs, the system will be 30 times more powerful than the world's 500 fastest supercomputers combined--and 100 times more powerful than the fastest supercomputer ever invented.
The direction of prices is important because rice is the main staple of more than half the world's population, making its price a focus of attention for world economists.
The Asian Development Bank is more ready than the World Bank to be a cheerleader for the Bangladeshi government and is keen to resuscitate the project.
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This marginal reasoning explains why Kuwait, which is renowned for its oil reserves, still has imports at some point, the marginal cost of domestic production is more expensive than the world price.
The Joy of Sex ended up selling more than 10 million copies around the world - more than five million in the United States alone, where it stayed in the New York Times best-seller list for a decade.
The objective of all warriors is to depreciate their currency more than the rest of the world.
Paid Content makes a good case that hyperlocal might work on paper more than the real world.
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Today, more than half the world's food aid comes from the United States.
Germans are annoyed by dirty common areas (the community microwave or refrigerator) more than the rest of the world.
Flags of convenience now account for more than half the world's merchant tonnage, and they show no signs of slowing.
More than half the world's population already lives in cities and the urban population of sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2030.
History is full of arrogance preceding failure in all kinds of enterprises, but nowhere more than in the world of technology.
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GMOs made up more than half the world's soya crop by area, a quarter of its corn and over a tenth of its cotton.
In total, cities house more than half the world's population, and account for two-thirds of its energy consumption and over 60% of its greenhouse-gas emissions.
So when things do go right -- and they do more often than the world will ever know -- we ought to celebrate your success.
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Rumors of fish weighing up to 6 pounds more than the current world record (22.3 pounds) have drifted with the no-trade winds across the Straits of Florida.
But once I started reading the novel it became apparent that Fellowes was writing about much more than the provincial world of upper class Brits clinging to rapidly disappearing social importance.
However, no precise statistics can be given for China, where numbers are secret, but where the group says it believes thousands were executed - more than the rest of the world put together.
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Within two decades, according to a U.S. government report drawing heavily on data from secret information sources, China could need 175 million tonnes of grain a year, more than the total world grain trade in 2001.
If so, such a strategy will go a long way toward explaining why the American people may decide they trust the President with all of his policy failures more than the challenger from the world of business.
And alternative sources of oil Canada's tar sands, Africa's deepwater reserves are nearer than many think: Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a think-tank, predicts that these and other developments will provide some 6m-7.5m bpd more capacity than the world needs by the end of the decade.
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