Key to the turnaround was the assiduous courting of business, especially industries that create local wealth, such as tourism, media, property and especially finance.
Yahoo CEO, Jerry Yang, said the world's ailments have prompted cuts in marketing, especially in finance and retail.
The whole concept of self-regulation through self-interest is now dead, especially in finance but probably in other industries as well.
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Many businessmen praise Invest Northern Ireland, the agency charged with regional development, for pulling in high-quality inward investment, especially in finance, technology and business services.
The slowing will be even sharper once a big fall in bonuses, especially in the finance industry, is included.
Especially with a finance-ministry minder next to him, Mr Fukui may now have his work cut out to preserve the central bank's independence.
Findings indicate that both higher-earning women as well as those with more advanced degrees are more likely to become self-employed, especially in the finance, education and health sectors.
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What is more, many in government badly want their country to be reconnected to sources of international finance, especially the IMF and the World Bank.
European Union ministers, especially French and German finance ministers, are trying to restrict the powers available to the UK's new Financial Policy Committee, which has its first meeting today.
But 2009 looks less rosy: the government is cutting high expectations of income from migrants, amid fears that Filipinos who work in IT and finance, especially, will lose jobs.
But the company still faces a rough 2010 on the finance side, especially if the real estate market gets worse instead of better.
Nothing is more dear to a finance company, especially one with a heavy hand in the subprime market, than its access to credit, something Countrywide Financial and others are finding out all too painfully.
Most CEOs, especially if they have a background in finance, are experts at this game.
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Some emerging economies, especially those that relied on foreign debt finance, will face prolonged problems.
Shorting is a difficult game, especially in this environment when rumors and finance minister comments are hitting the market seemingly every few minutes.
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But many big state or local government projects, especially those conceived on the private-finance initiative (PFI) model, have a life of their own.
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Israel has made significant changes--especially under Benjamin Netanyahu, who was finance minister (2003--05)--but it could do a lot more, including instituting a low-rate flat tax.
They are especially going after directors who sit on risk or finance committees.
And what we get from the Ministry of Finance are proposals for raising taxes, especially, now the consumption tax.
Yet physics graduates are especially sought after in well-paying industries like finance.
If you have consolidated IT processes and systems and generated significant savings, this translates especially well to the other shared services such as finance and HR.
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The hurdles that CCS and especially geo-engineering present, along with the finance question, are almost certainly more challenging than the technical ones presented by carrying one end of a hosepipe up on a balloon and spraying some water out.
It is especially difficult to think of this as a way to finance international development aid.
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And if interest rates start to rise in the rich world, especially in America, Turkey could suddenly see its external finance dry up.
But the other half of the fiscal programme involves structural reforms to give the finance ministry greater control over public spending, especially that by lower tiers of government.
"I think the context in which Davos takes place, especially with so many leading people from the business and finance world, it is bound to be dominated by the situation in the world economy, " he told a press conference.
"People are always going to be linked with your players, especially if they see Everton as a club with not that much finance, " he said.
Comments are most welcome, especially from those involved in issuing, managing and investing in the area of Islamic finance.
Small wonder, then, that the feds aren't especially eager to publicize these data, which come from written answers to the Senate Finance Committee by now-Deputy Treasury Secretary Samuel W. Bodman .
Changes in profitability, especially, can lead to upheaval such as happened in the last couple of years in finance and autos.
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