And even though the company's size now dwarfs some entire industries and national economies, business experts say its success over the years is well deserved.
AU, and is seen as having a big say over its deployment of troops.
The truth is that the way this fund will be created, members of Congress will have no say over its disbursements.
Switzerland, home to two huge banks, UBS and Credit Suisse, each of which at the time of the crisis had assets at least twice the size of the country's annual GDP, is also proposing unusually strict capital rules and giving regulators a say over its banks' business decisions.
Correspondents say the dispute over its voter ID law has taken on a high profile amid a tight White House race.
When a hospital negotiates with, say, Aetna over the costs of its surgical procedures, that hospital negotiator can much more easily walk away from a deal if she is confident that her hospital has a long waitlist for elective surgical procedures, meaning that the other insurance companies in town will bring them plenty of business to remain at capacity.
The advantage plug-in hybrids have over regular hybrids, its proponents say, is you can power them by electricity alone.
For now, the only inter-governmental body with a say over the region is the Arctic Council: its mandate is narrowly environmental.
Syrian rebels have captured the governor of the northern province of Raqqa after over-running most its capital city, activists say.
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At some point, analysts say, the company is likely to face scrutiny not only over its past in the U.S., but over what has become a reality of online gambling: the so-called gray market.
On the one hand, with its comforting array of British character actors and its kindly, not to say obsequious, approach to a royal triumph over circumstance, it touches the most conservative chords of period drama.
But any outcome that recognizes Lululemon's patents could trigger a broader move by the fashion industry to bring its ideas to the PTO, and perhaps give the industry the control over its designs it has long wanted, other legal experts say.
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He did not say if France was involved in talks Tripoli held with London and Washington over its decision to abandon its banned weapons program, a move that opens the prospect of an end to sanctions and the possible return of U.S. firms.
Iran and the US are engaged in a tense confrontation over Iran's nuclear programme, which Washington and its allies say is aimed at developing nuclear weapons.
At the recent exercises it deployed strategic bombers, which military experts say China would like to buy as part of its preparations for possible conflict with America over Taiwan.
It's hard to get totally excited about a PC hardware peripheral, given the smaller quantity of games (particularly hardware-specific titles) over in desktop land, but with Valve support and what appears to be the perfect control scheme (dual analog sticks, dual fully 3D-sensing motion controllers), we'd say the Hydra has a better shot at winning us over than anything else of its ilk.
As The Wall Street Journal reported, people familiar with the matter say British consular officials in China expressed suspicion over the death of the British businessman in its immediate aftermath in November, but the case wasn't initially pursued because other U.K. officials believed that asking the Chinese to investigate would be problematic.
Analysts say that North Korea's decision to close the complex underscores its willingness to place political goals over economic and financial benefits.
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What Mr Kann should be blamed for, his critics say, is the company's strategic failure since he took over in 1991 to broaden its mix of assets.
Part of the problem for the stock, say financial advisers: lingering questions over Facebook's long-term growth prospects particularly its ability to generate revenue from online advertisements.
Doctors say that both drugs may work equally well over the shorter time period, but Roche has proven its case with clinical trials and Schering has not.
This is not to say that a pullback, regardless of its severity, means that the run in the market in question is over.
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But like-minded countries say that this provision would politicise the court, giving every permanent member of the council a veto over its activities.
The reason, say Moody's is "its increasingly ambitious intention to expand in the US, coupled with the uncertainties over a possible increase in financial risk".
One day, they say, the international community will have to realize the only way to avert war over Abkhazia is to recognize its independence.
It wants to raise over half of its new capital from developing countries, partly in return for giving them greater say in its running.
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