There was only one problem with my idea: We were in the middle of building an Agency of Innovation an unproven, new-to-the-world category that would rely on a creative new business model and offerings.
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Obviously Obama's decision to upstage the premier with his new outreach-to-the-Arab-world speech will make Netanyahu's visit more challenging than it was already going to be.
Companies large and small, many that didn't even have e-mail a few years ago, are increasingly exploiting the Internet to reach new customers around the world fast - as well as to cut costs, shorten delivery time, and even re-engineer fundamental processes.
Now, however, four-and-a-half years later, a secretive government committee has decided to turn over the management of six of the Nation's most important ports - in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Miami, Baltimore and New Orleans - to Dubai Ports World following the UAE company's purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.
Just about anyone with a high-flying executive job and a decent monthly income can afford all the trappings of wealth- from new BMWs to country club memberships, first-class trips around the world, and a cozy home fueled by an alternative energy source, complete with a butler at the front door.
As the country enters its seventh decade of existence, there will soon be a new addition to the list--the world's cheapest car.
Should they only manage a draw, then New Zealand - 2000-1 to win the World Cup before the tournament started - could deny them with victory over Paraguay in their final Group F match.
They included an early edition of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part Two, finely illustrated books - such as Theodor de Bry's America, which chronicles the earliest expeditions to the New World - and medical books, such as The French Chirurgerye.
In states like Mississippi, which respondents to ATRA's survey described as particularly hostile to class-action defendants, local business defendants often have a home-field advantage, whereas other states like New Jersey--home to many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, and highlighted as a bad place for them to get sued--treat in-state defendants as roughly as out-of-state defendants.
Famed for their trademark macho outfits, including a policeman's uniform, a red Indian, and a construction worker, Village People - named in tribute to the New York's Greenwich Village gay district - launched themselves on the disco world in the late 1970s.
The outcome in Lebanon is another good reason for the Obama Administration to make democracy a priority of its so-called new relationship with the Muslim world -- even if George W. Bush also happened to think it was a good idea.
Then, the new film comes out, treating Batman as an established entity, followed by another TV series to build further audience buy-in and to really establish this whole world of Gotham as the new long-term Batman universe.
Historically, gold often rises during the time frame from late summer into Christmas or early in the New Year due to gift-giving holidays around the world, starting with Indian celebrations in autumn.
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And to help meet that goal, this master of lean manufacturing is experimenting with a new cost-saving factory setup that it hopes to deploy around the world--while competitors are just now catching up with its last-generation manufacturing innovations.
The International Co-ordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB-ICC) is meeting on 9-13 July 2012 to consider new sites for inclusion in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
Solms, Germany (June 21, 2011) - Leica Camera AG is proud to present a new version of the world's smallest, full-frame digital system camera: the Leica M9-P.
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Nothing had remained of that false moment of intimacy, in June 2009, when he had traveled to Cairo, the self-styled herald of a new American message to the Arab world.
And then one afternoon a jury says, 'not guilty' -- or a hurricane hits New Orleans -- and that despair is revealed for the world to see.
In his speech in Frankfurt, Bernanke left the door open to new interest -rate cuts, saying the world's central banks stand ready to take more steps if necessary.
That said, the Sox organization has fond memories of playing in New York: The last time the White Sox played a National League game here was Oct. 15, 1917, beating the New York Giants, 4-2, to clinch the World Series.
When Kevin Rudd admitted to public drunkenness at a strip club in New York - which was probably the first time most people around the world first got to hear about him - he was in the company of Col Allan, the Australian editor of the Murdoch-owned New York Post.
In the company's first season without Wagner since anti-German sentiment in 1918-19 caused by World War I, the Met will present six new-to-New York productions, the fewest since Peter Gelb's first season as general manager in 2006-07.
Parkins first started his business more than 10 years ago, but the new high-speed connection means he has been able to secure contracts with top telecoms companies around the world - all from an office that looks out onto the Atlantic, in the north Cornwall village of St Agnes.
According to the New York-based organization Committee to Protest Journalists, Iran is now the "world's top jailer of journalists, " with at least 30 reporters and bloggers in prison.
People now have more money to spend, and some of them go to the new Shangri-La-run hotel at the top of the China World Tower, Beijing's tallest building.
This is due in part to the United Nations' climate summit now in progress in New York, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders to discuss climate issues.
New York - Divide and conquer: That seems to be the motto of the world's third-richest man.
Pioneer's two new in-dash navigation models are the first to conveniently connect drivers to the world around them with on-demand, interactive, personalized radio.
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To adjust to the new buyout world, private-equity firms are looking for high-growth and smaller companies.
Mr DeLillo sends them to the far corners of the land, too not just to New York and Chicago and the big- city, blue-collar world that Mr DeLillo knows so well, but to Phoenix and Los Alamos, Los Angeles and the southern Californian sprawl.
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