Twinkies fell victim to the same thinking that led American companies to outsource their operations to Asia, and helped make China an economic rival.
The lawyer argued that the charity's commercial wing would want to promote and protect this asset against what it perceived to be an economic rival.
Mr Lee's gripe is that the authorities are developing a rival economic zone, the Suzhou New District, to the west of the town.
Although unlikely to rival the economic might of India and China or the resources of Russia and Brazil, this motley crew of emerging markets make the CIVETS the next band of countries to profit from a shift in global power.
The European Constitution is largely the product of a long-running Franco-German campaign to construct an economic, political and strategic rival to the United States.
And, just as individual economic advances have added up to rival the effect of the formidable regular IT industry, these minute advances in total can create world-class business opportunities.
But Mr McCain sounds less assured than his young rival when grappling with complex economic issues such as the housing crunch.
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He has temporarily bought off Mr Morgan, his main rival, by giving him responsibility for economic development and Europe in his eight-member cabinet.
By alleging that advertising claims are false and misleading, a plaintiff can impose huge legal costs on a rival for no other purpose than to seek economic advantage.
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Executives have been pressing officials in China to include GE's advanced boiling-water reactors in their next five-year economic plan (China uses the pressurized reactors championed by perennial GE rival Westinghouse, now part of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.).
On the other hand, McCain can shore up his ticket on the economic front by selecting someone who has a solid financial footing: former rival Mitt Romney.
Yet economists, like rival witch doctors, get red in the face promoting diametrically opposed economic remedies, sometimes sharing Nobel Prizes in the same year for theories that directly contradict each other.
Yesterday, FedEx rival, UPS, reaffirmed its full year earnings guidance, but warned of difficult economic conditions and anemic growth.
Neither Microsoft nor Coca-Cola has offered any compelling economic arguments for depriving consumers of the chance to choose easily between their product and its main rival.
Diplomacy, economic influence, and other means of persuasion are always to be preferred in our dealings with dangerous regimes and rival states.
Supporters of his rival, Didier Ratsiraka, the ex-president who claims to be president still, tightened their economic blockade of the capital, Antananarivo.
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