Few American consumers know the Ahold name, but the antitrust lawyers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) know it well.
But how many Americans know that the U.S. is also using drones to intervene in Yemen, or Somalia?
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Alternatively, you can see all the jets you like at specialist business aviation trade shows like the National Business Aviation Association convention ( NBAA) in the U.S., but then you must know when and where they are being held.
But people around the world in general know what the U. S. stands for.
The Fed and Treasury may have handled the crisis ineptly so far, but the U.S. and every other economic power know only too well the lessons of the Great Depression.
As a young man I thought I knew everything, and as a middle-aged man I still think I know everything but have allowed myself some subtle U-turns on things I once believed to be universal truths.
Our sales were down, you know, in the U.S. But somehow earnings went up 55% because our international sales are booming.
We hear the U.S. Congress is trying to amend this, but you know how that goes.
But publicly, as you know, those Arab leaders are pressing the U.S. to lean on Israel to halt its bombing campaign.
But I don't know of any steps that are happening at the U.N.
In the sovereign debt space, which is government bonds, the debt ratings of developed countries remain under pressure for downgrading, including in the U.K., France and as we all know now, here in the U.S. But emerging markets, which have enjoyed back-to-back years of credit rating upgrades are seeing those upgrade numbers dwindle, with some negative outlooks in some developing nations.
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But I do know that they all were in charge of companies that cost the U.S. taxpayer billions of dollars while enriching themselves in the process.
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Authorities in the area have blamed the violence on militia supporters of Gbagbo based in Liberia but officials with the U.N. peackeeping mission in Ivory Coast have said they do not know whom to blame.
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At a hearing last June, an FDA official said the agency does not know how often counterfeit ingredients make their way into U.S. products but that the vast majority of imported bulk drugs are safe and effective.
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Now, it might seem crazy that U.S. taxpayers would be called upon to bail out, you know, the Royal Bank of Scotland, or UBS. But Secretary Paulson says, you know, these banks do a lot of business in the U.S., they employ a lot of people here, but you can expect that that will be a hard pill for a lot of Americans to swallow.
It justifies its stagnation not only by reminding its members of the chaos of the 1970s but by claiming that the U.S. health system would not pay psychiatrists if they tried to know their patients the way that they could and should.
Press secretary George Little said he didn't know whether the U.S. would have access to the pilot to question him, but he said there have been "countless incidents" of members of the Syrian regime seeking to defect, and predicted more such moves to come.
But at the same time, you know, which we see in the past couple of months is that these U.S. military deaths have actually fallen and the number of roadside bomb attacks have - on them have gone down.
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