This, as well the fact that by 2015, 80 percent of mobile advertising spend will be from outside of the U.S., indicates that the vast opportunity for mobile is in a global setting.

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They have also coaxed leading international banks into setting up a global clearing house to reduce the risk of loss should big foreign-exchange trades not be completed as the parties agreed.

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Doesn't anyone in authority remember that the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1929-30 precipitated the Great Depression by slapping prohibitive taxes on hundreds of imports, thereby setting off a devastating global trade war?

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Beijing has joined the World Trade Organisation, and Delhi sees it as a powerful potential counterweight to the power of America and the other rich nations in setting the terms for international commerce trade in a new global trade round.

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Part of it was to show how the metal acts in a different setting, and specifically as a borrowed asset, said Juan Carlos Artigas, global head of investment research at the World Gold Council, in an interview with Kitco News.

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Setting aside the global implications, it is hard to see how Kosovo constitutes a viable state.

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Even setting up conference calls with colleagues across different time zones and countries "is a lesson in global cooperation and tolerance, " she says.

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"To be fined in such a way over something that the Commission was so sure was correct, it does risk setting a precedent, and more companies may now challenge the EU's position, " Global Insight's European analyst Rachna Uppal told Forbes.com.

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