Since then, India has looked enviously at China's far larger and more successful zones.
So I listened carefully, enviously, while the kids in Thanh's basement transformed themselves into true Americans.
European tech entrepreneurs often look enviously at their U.S. counterparts when it comes to their venture capital backers.
Many farmers look enviously at their French counterparts' direct action of blocking ports.
British pig farmers, for example, look enviously at their Danish counterparts who are mostly organised in big co-operative selling groups.
Its researchers look enviously at Brazil, which spends over twice that proportion and almost five times as much in real terms.
MPs from poorer English regions are enviously eyeing Scottish public spending, which is about 25% higher per Scot than per Englishman.
Bosses at other companies have looked on enviously as Germany's big car firms, especially Daimler-Benz, have prospered after having wielded the knife.
At that point, of course, Arabs elsewhere will look enviously at the region's first federal democracy and will no doubt wish to emulate it.
From Sudan, members of Al Jihad watched enviously as a much larger organization, the Islamic Group, waged open warfare on the Egyptian state.
After the second world war, Britain sank down the GDP-per-head league tables, looking enviously at the German and Japanese economic miracles in the 1970s.
If austerity is the best the GOP can do, Americans are fated, for now, to remain mired in the lower echelon of the world, gazing enviously at Malawi.
Anticipating my soreness to come, I watched enviously as their toned bodies tirelessly rehearsed one dance routine after the next, peeling off layers of Sea Gal-sequined clothing in the process.
Though Thailand was the first country hit by the Crisis - and the one where unrest and even military intervention was most feared - it managed to remain enviously tranquil.
People who love the Arctic for its beauty, not its riches, look enviously at Antarctica, which was carefully parcelled out by a treaty regime designed to stop the cold war spreading south.
In the 1970s and 80s, Las Vegas grew at an astonishing speed, but the state of the global economy has seen the famous Strip temper its ambition and look enviously towards its Chinese counterpart.
In recent days commentators and campaigners here have looked, almost enviously, towards India, wondering what it might take to provoke a similar sense of outrage - and angrily debating whether outrage itself is enough, and who, or what, to blame.
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