For example, upon learning that there was not a single complete edition of the Talmud in Germany, General Joseph McNarney, commander of the American zone of Occupied Germany, undertook an effort to print a Talmud for survivors.
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As reports suggested that Duncan Smith's leadership manifesto would indicate a desire for closer links with the North American trade zone Nafta, Mr Clarke described his rival's European policy as "a euphemism for leaving the EU".
The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Carroll underwent a medical checkup at the American hospital in the Green Zone.
Yet we don't need an extradition treaty with Iraq to transfer Daqduq, a Lebanese citizen captured by American forces in a war zone.
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Mr Trenin says that what Russia wants is a buffer zone, with no American military bases or NATO presence.
This year multinational anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden (China's first active naval engagement beyond Asia) saw Chinese and American ships operating in the same zone and communicating with each other in a friendly enough manner.
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An investor in the Subic Bay economic zone, a converted former American naval base, reckons that although 80% of the transport and telecoms links to the area are finished, that is enough to attract only 10-20% of potential investors.
These were value investors who refused to blanch at losses just so long as they believed the banks and the American International Group they owned remained in a zone of intrinsic value.
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In a recent series of meetings in Washington and London, French officials told their American and British counterparts that the threat "zone is evolving" as Mali militants have increasingly moved out of reach.
American banks are less exposed to wobbly euro-zone countries, but the numbers are still pretty big.
Entering and leaving the Green Zone, the fortified heart of the American presence, had become too risky.
The U.S. told American nationals to evacuate from a 50-mile zone around FDI.
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If most of the price reductions were concentrated in the months around the new year, they could well be sufficient to avert an American recession and revive financial confidence in the euro zone.
On the other side are those who argue that the American deficit and debt are already in the red zone, and a further delay in cutting them could trigger a European-style debt crisis we cannot afford.
Around 20 countries have pledged to support Poland, which should itself have some 2, 300 people in Iraq by next month, and is supposed to take charge of a zone between the British one and the American one in Baghdad.
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He made a total of five trips into the kill zone - once on foot - to evacuate American and Afghan soldiers.
The first six minutes of his most recent feature, Free Zone, is a close-up of American actress Natalie Portman in an Israeli taxicab sobbing uncontrollably.
But on that fateful Friday, when the North American plate slid over the Pacific plate along a subduction zone running 130km (80 miles) off the Pacific coast of northern Japan, the shock leapt from the first segment to a second and on to a third, extending the fault zone some 400km and increasing its intensity more than 30-fold.
LA's riot zone is still in much better shape than most American ghettoes.
Cherchez la femme: in 1962, James Joseph Dresnok, an American soldier stationed on the South Korea side of the demilitarized zone, snuck away from guard duty to visit a woman.
Many of the American, British and other foreign workers based there never leave the Green Zone during their entire posting in the country.
With the added uncertainty caused by the ongoing Euro zone crisis, European banks are in even worse shape than their American counterparts.
But European politicians' interference is not yet egregious enough to discourage the British and American private-equity firms that are becoming an increasing presence in the euro zone.
European equities, which have on average underperformed American ones, look more attractive: the price-earnings ratio in the euro zone is 11.
To the extent that America's economic cycle typically leads the European cycle, American data may help to assess the future path of output and inflation in the euro zone.
One Blackwater operative told a reporter on a flight home from the Middle East that he had served as a bodyguard, escorting American personnel along the extremely dangerous road from Baghdad's airport to the fortified Green Zone downtown.
The IOC is delaying negotiations on a new TV deal until after the vote, to avoid suggestions of influence by American network NBC, who prefer Chicago or, failing that, Rio because of its time zone.
Bent's signing is also a show of faith in manager Gerard Houllier by Villa's American owner Randy Lerner, despite the Frenchman struggling to steer the club away from the relegation zone since taking over in September.
The agency responsible for building the canal and administering the Canal Zone, the Isthmian Canal Commission (ICC), had no alternative but to provide them with such American necessities as iceboxes and porcelain baths as well as such perks as home leave and houses with wide verandas.
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