The United States no longer wishes to take a back seat to those countries, nor appear to be doing so.
Many of you are probably saying Apple and others appear to be doing well at the expense of RIM and Nokia.
Interestingly the main supermarkets have just announced their financial results and they all appear to be doing really quite well, all things considered.
Events appear to be doing so with astonishing, frightening speed in Egypt right now, so the time of great restraint may soon be over.
"Both appear to be doing well and their spirits are definitely at a higher level, " said Audra Mincey, public relations manager at the medical center.
To do so, they must manage the balance of spending on marketing, content and technology, which they acknowledge and appear to be doing given the aforementioned trend line.
Nonetheless, financial regulatory reform has one thing going for it: Neither party wants to appear to be doing little to rein in Wall Street excess, particularly as election season approaches.
Above all, they insist privately that they do not want to appear to be doing Israel's bidding by disarming Hizbullah: that job, they say, must fall to Lebanon's official army.
Neighbours and relief charities, including some with links to Islamic extremists, appear to be doing a better job of helping victims than the national authorities, at least in some blighted areas.
We are raising a generation of functional illiterates, and we should be more worried about the dictates from on high that prevent the teachers actually doing their job properly, than about a few tests that are a waste of space and only devised so that the Education Minister can appear to actually be doing something.
And we'll see if there's any political check on them, because there doesn't appear to be any legal check on what they're doing.
This might appear to be corporate self-interest, but Amazon is actually doing the right thing.
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On the front end they appear to be less, because frankly, they've had a head start over the last several years in doing things like energy efficiency that we care about.
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