The better-managed western operators could achieve returns on assets near 40%, reckons Mr Monaghan.
But how much better to be Western Digital Corporation, the number two disk-drive maker at the time?
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Instead, she thinks, governments would do better to heed western studies into the social costs of gambling.
"We started out poor (in Ohio and Indiana), picked up in western Illinois where things were better than we had seen, but heading into western Iowa was another disappointment, " said Christina McGlone, head of ag research at Deutsche Bank who was on the tour.
No, certainly not, but they will pick and choose from some of the better offerings from those Western European countries with which they have good relations (France Germany Italy).
Western Europe's employees are also better wired: every new member-state is below the western average for internet penetration, and all but Estonia and Slovenia trail on e-government scores.
Disk-drive maker Western Digital reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal second quarter ended December 30.
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Many charities are better at getting grants from western donors than at tapping rich Russians.
Is there some reason why a retail presence straddling several countries should work better in Central than in Western Europe?
During Mr Carney's five years as governor in Canada, Mr Osborne said he was "acknowledged to have weathered the economic storm better than any other major Western economy".
They are all investment grade, some even AA. Their governments balance sheets are fiscally sound, way better than nearly all of Western Europe and even the U.S. In Asia, the government bond market is highly liquid, with yields between 100 to 175 basis points over Treasury bonds.
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Faiz believes the hippies of the 1970s were better behaved than today's Western crowd.
But Western countries must do better, or risk losing support and moving the spotlight away from Taliban atrocities and war crimes.
Yet the truth is that children in general are better off and safer in the western industrialised world nowadays than they have ever been.
Of course, you can chortle at the outrageous overbuilding in places like Dubai, but the Western world might do better to appreciate the scope of their ambition.
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The Australasian bid, centred on the virtually unpopulated Shire of Murchison, in Western Australia, scored better for radio quietness (important to prevent interference), and on non-scientific factors such as political stability and the quality of the working environment.
While both foreign and domestic sports brands make the bulk of their sales from selling to franchises and wholesalers in trade fairs months before they are sold, Western sports brands have better ties with the shops that sell their products.
This free-market, pro-western party, which did better than expected in the December parliamentary elections, now looks split.
Western Digital has never been better positioned to address this opportunity, with great people, deep technology, a broad product portfolio and strong customer and supplier relationships.
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Thus, enough economists argue that the times of full employment are gone in the western world forever , or better, that the natural rate from the 3-4% which were traditionally called full employment rose significantly to the maybe 8-10% we used to see over the last years and decades.
If we want to remain part of the Western world, we'd better do it ourselves.
Better-off Russians are increasingly looking to western education for their children.
More generally, China's banks should be better insulated from the global credit crunch than Western banks because the country's system is funded through deposits rather than capital markets.
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Some countries have been through more loss within living memory and are better at grieving, but not so in Western Europe and the U.S. The economic healing process may take a long time.
With better economic growth prospects and lower competition among major western brands than the U.S., international markets provide an opportunity to gain market share and brand recognition.
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Mr. Milosevic's ability to have his way with a string of Western mediators (some of them far better men than Jimmy Carter), rendered the outcome a bit predictable.
The HDD companies, Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba are participating in better management of storage device energy use, as are flash manufacturers such as SanDisk, Samsung and Toshiba and many flash based storage equipment suppliers such as Skyera, Smart Storage Systems and Virident.
He did not note that the family had headed to Jerusalem only because Etel had suggested they go to the Western Wall (or that God might have done better by them by not causing the crash at all).
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