The global expansion is here to stay.

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For all the hostility to foreign influence, Italy is creeping towards an unplanned compromise with the world in which companies' international expansion benefits those who stay at home and foreign workers fill a hole created by the shrinking of the native population.

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Lion Air, with around 100 aircraft now, hopes to stay ahead of the pack through expansion.

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To push back, Dunne says using new-found profits from a weaker yen to move manufacturing plants to cheaper locales overseas is one way to stay competitive -- as long as the pace of expansion is controlled.

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Mr Blodget still supports Amazon's expansion and believes it will eventually pay off, but he is concerned that investors may not want to stay the course.

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Maybe that's because the '80s represented something of a sports sweet spot, coming after free agency and racial integration had become the norm, but before further expansion, big payroll disparities and salary cap rules began making it tough for top teams to assemble and stay together.

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