For De Beers, it confirms that the company's Central Selling Organisation will still control the world diamond trade.
When economists and politicians say that you can't buck or control the world's financial markets, just think of John Wayne and a herd of stampeding cattle.
Rather, they reflect a strategic imperative not unlike that which led Britain's Royal Navy and, subsequently, the United States Navy, to assume responsibility for, and amass the means to exercise control over the world's oceans.
Largely ignored in the discussion of these dangers to date, however, is the extent to which such threats contrast with the way proponents of arms control said the world would be if only the United States eliminated its own chemical and biological stockpiles.
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The "mute" button of every TV remote control in the world is another good tool for keeping noisy and insulting commercials at bay.
The narrator sings about a man who slowly takes control of the world "with a face of an angel and the heart of a beast, " and as the man's promises lead to ruin, Norman's voice becomes increasingly defeated.
Even a confident man like the new pope might be forgiven a little nervousness upon assuming control of the world's biggest church during a pivotal time in its history.
In short, even though MLB and its partners, including television, cannot control which teams reach the World Series, they can control the message.
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Control of the world's stock of foreign direct investment (FDI), which includes takeovers and companies' greenfield investments, tends to reflect a country's economic muscle.
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It is ready to regain control of the world automotive market.
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The chips also let phones talk directly to card-swipe terminals in stores, which has set off a race to organize and control the new world of mobile payments.
Once injected, the malware would contact one of the many command and control servers around the world and download additional modules as needed.
The survey, jointly conducted by the China Center for Disease Control, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization, shows that seven out of 10 adults reported being exposed to secondhand smoke in a typical week.
Weight Watchers International, Inc. is the largest provider of weight control programs in the world.
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The complaint claimed that "Anheuser-Busch employs some of most sophisticated process control technology in the world to precisely monitor the alcohol content at the final stages of production, and then adds additional water to produce beers with significantly lower alcohol contents than is represented on the the labels".
Damballa discovered the botnet in March and has been tracking its communication with command-and-control servers around the world.
Perhaps the most promising approach, from the governments' point of view, is co-ordinated action to gain some control over the online world.
In the mid-1960s Control Data was producing the world's most powerful supercomputers, but strangely enough couldn't sell very many of them.
But moving beyond segmentation and basic access control, the virtual world provides opportunities for innovative security that the physical world simply cannot fathom.
Imagine if you were a super-villain who had taken control of all the world's gold, and had decided to melt it down to make a cube.
According to the article, Facebook is deeply insecure about the fact that it does not control the mobile operating system which the world is fast moving to.
In America, the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control is one of the world's largest users of name-matching technology.
The new partnership with DST could help bring Tencent into the first tier of global digital media investing, and the huge pools of capital DST, Tencent and Naspers control should make entrepreneurs the world over drool.
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We are strongly supporting the International Atomic Energy Agency in its mission to track and control nuclear materials around the world.
If there is one thing African states can learn through China, it is how to imagine their own future, explore new possibilities, and engage with the rest of the world while retaining control over the conditions of those engagements.
Visa and MasterCard are the two largest payment network providers in the world and control more than 80% of the market between them.
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In most parts of the developing world, control over resources at the village level is ill-defined.
If anything, this most recent outbreak in Europe points to how strong our own food-safety system is, and not just because the nationwide reach and capabilities of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is unmatched elsewhere in the world.
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Although the sentiment of a command and control world remains relevant today, the biggest change since then has been the democratization of information via the internet coupled with the adoption of social and mobile technologies leading to tech-savvy and better informed consumers (and citizens).
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