Sales could also be affected by a slowing economy and its influence on consumer spending, he adds.
It is still the most powerful nation in terms of its alliances and its influence around the world.
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Instead, he responded that social media has made his job more interesting and its influence on the NBA has been overwhelming positive.
Radio remains a paramount purveyor of news and information, and its influence remains undiminished despite the surge of online media outlets and diverse Internet services.
In the past, News Corp might have refused the cash in order that its stake in BSkyB - and its influence over the company - would rise.
Whether you love or hate or merely tolerate the expansion of what Walt Disney started in 1923, there's no doubting that Disney is popular and its influence is everywhere.
And its influence has even spread to that great bastion of sobriety and conformity, that very fortress of good taste and sensible living, the officials' room at Catterick racecourse, North Yorkshire.
While America was preoccupied with Afghanistan, and later Iraq, China took advantage of Washington's new focus to minimise tension with the superpower and enhance its standing and its influence with its Asian neighbours.
Its long-delayed program to replace aging air fleets was in disarray, its senior officers had been largely excluded from joint commands, and its influence with political leaders had been eclipsed by the Army and Navy.
With more than forty percent of American workers reporting chronic workplace stress, the long-term impact of stress and its influence on the human creative condition and business can be detrimental, says Rick Hanson PhD, a California based neuropsychologist and author of Just One Thing: Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time.
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These countries want nothing more than to see the United States retreat from the UN, withdraw from UN bodies, and lose its influence and leadership positions and potentially its vote in key UN bodies.
Ex-Labour cabinet minister and EU commissioner Lord Mandelson has acknowledged that voices calling for the UK to retain and extend its influence in the EU have been "relatively muted and relatively less well-organised" than their opponents.
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At the same time, the United States must set an example through its own aid practices and must use its influence with Bonn to ensure that the struggling nations of Central and Eastern Europe are not abandoned as a result of a fixation with aid to the Soviet Union.
Though a fiery speech by Mr Assad last week warned Israel of danger if it did not make peace, it is arguable that Syria has more to lose than to gain, if peace reduces its leverage over America in Iraq and over Israel through its influence on Hamas and Hizbullah.
Hong Kong sets the bar for China's culture vultures generally, and its gustatory influence is pervasive.
But what really upsets Samsung investors is the founding Lee family and its undue influence over the chaebol.
Thoreau died in 1862 at age 44 without receiving any acclaim for his writing and its global influence.
As the immigrant knows too well, personal branding itself can quickly become a commodity and begin to lose its impact and influence overtime.
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But Mr Davis will find it hard to emulate Tony Blair's policy of robbing the right of its ideas and the left of its influence.
Conservatives, however - and generally it is they who have held sway in this debate so far - argue the Church will retain its influence and identity only if it sticks closely to its historical traditions.
But Slovenia's size and its hostility to foreign influence meant that for years it resisted foreign capital as a solution for its banks and cash-starved industries.
Down the road one can imagine a China that is all those things, and a positive influence on its region and on the world as well.
But the Fed has not told us when it will begin to normalize its balance sheet, and the expectation is that it will further expand its asset acquisition and influence the allocation of credit.
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Still, with a diverse economy and robust demand dynamics, Brazil is poised to continue growing and exert its international influence.
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Each still needs the other to strengthen and preserve its foreign influence.
The small but influential firm buys the equity or debt of troubled companies and then uses its influence to push for restructuring.
Such, indeed, is the tendency to such a coalition, and such its corrupting influence on both the parties, that the danger cannot be too carefully guarded against.
In short, if you were concerned in 2009 about America's increasing international vulnerability and its decreasing global influence, you will find little to celebrate in the coming year.
By introducing the television-like device with expanded computer capabilities and with the same user interface as iPods, iPhones, iPads, and Macs, Apple would benefit, yet again, from the Halo Effect and expand its media influence to the living room.
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