For a start the cellphone market is far from the only one where Japanese domestic standards are unique.

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The area also has protected species such as the Cantabrian brown bears, woodpeckers as well as unique domestic species.

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Scott Lincicome and I even wrote a 20, 000-plus word Cato analysis explaining why the economic, geopolitical, and domestic political environment offered the president a unique opportunity to steer his party back to its pro-trade roots.

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The second, from comScore, measured our domestic audience. comScore just released its worldwide numbers, putting Forbes at 24.5 million unique monthly users in January (the green line in the chart below), up 43% from a year earlier.

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China is unique among emerging markets in that its private-sector companies are largely listed overseas, where domestic Chinese investors are prohibited from investing.

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