Hardly any European country of note has a law against bribery and corruption similar to American legislation which makes it a criminal act for American companies to offer inducements when tendering for contracts abroad.
Businesses and cities across the country should take note: Locally-inspired public spaces, even temporary ones, and other quality-of-life factors have a real effect on economies.
Allawi talked about progress in rebuilding the country and repeatedly took note of the contribution of Americans, the other members of the coalition and the United Nations.
Powell's own dedication to his country that he would take note of the treatment of Muslim-Americans during the elections.
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Industrial-country voters would do well to note something else.
One of the most anticipated movies of the upcoming fall season is Australia, Baz Luhrmann's epic mash note to his home country, which stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman as Outback lovers.
It is important to note that Fujimori inherited a country in total chaos where violence was rampant and where hyperinflation reached 18, 000%.
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In a sign of yet more concern, Spain's bond yield ended Monday's session higher than it was before the weekend's events, with the yield on Spain's 10-year note -- effectively the country's borrowing costs -- posting its biggest one-day jump in a year.
While big-city dwellers are often maligned by those who prefer the charms of small-town life, Park and Peterson note that most people in the country live in big cities and that studies prove that the vast majority of those living in metropolises are happy about it.
For that Greek number, note that the population of the entire country is about the same as that of Greater London.
They (accurately and even eloquently) note the myriad flaws of their own country, and occasionally come up with realistic ideas that would help to ameliorate them.
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Critics wanted to know why the minister had let the Hollywo od star into the country without a passport - and why a handwritten note from the actor, explaining that he had lost the travel document, had gone missing.
For a country like Turkey that is struggling to find the right note in dealing with the western world, Mrs Erdogan's success points to an important truth.
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Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said his country made the request in a demarche, or protest note, to Pakistan's top diplomat in India, according to the Press Trust of India.
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She sees that as valuable in itself, an exploration of how candidates would govern - a kind of manifesto in a country that does not go in for manifestos, a promissory note for the next four years, during which one of the two will be in the White House.
Note that the rules are the same for everyone and every country.
Note: Pepperidge Farm puff pastry sheets are available in every supermarket across the country.
Mrs Merkel, they note, has never governed a town, let alone Europe's biggest country.
Heller filed a doctor's note with the court saying she was too ill to make the cross-country flight this week.
Though my own writing voice tends toward the ironical, cleverness was not the right note for the title of a book about the life and afterlife of a country girl who, though far from corn-pone, was more Branson than Brooklyn.
If he (or the country) is deemed trustworthy, a provider may accept the promise of future goods for a note.
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His Kiwi career finished on a high note with 163 runs at the recent World Twenty20, in which he finished his country's leading scorer.
And guests will also be able to write a note expressing their gratitude for the service that all of you have given to this country.
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Eriksson pointed out that every country that has won a major tournament since 1966, the last time England won anything of note, has had the benefit of a winter break and Germany, the best European performers, traditionally has the longest hiatus among major nations.
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Apple Inc. (AAPL) supplier Foxconn, which has boosted its China workforce 50 percent in two years to 1.2 million, needs to use employees in more parts of the country to meet demand, Jitendra Waral, a Bloomberg Industries technology analyst, said in a note published today.
We could hope, as we listened, that on this great issue, like others demanding answers now -- bringing our fiscal house in order, restoring equality of opportunity to our economy, ending our country's sick obsession with guns -- that future Inaugural addresses would be able to note the kind of material progress that we have seen with regard to combating racism or ending wars.
If there's a darker note here, it's that Congress remains uninterested in keeping those foreign students in the country once we've invested in their training -- witness the annual cap of H-1B work visas at 65, 000.
But it is more likely that future historians will note that, for all its shortcomings, it unearthed a sizeable chunk of truth about the country's awful past, and did so on a budget barely large enough to buy every South African a Coke.
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