It benefits from strong demand for advanced set-top boxes in developed countries as service providers aggressively transition their subscribers to advanced services.

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For the West the confusion is how to assist Muslim countries make the transition into modernity as much out of historical necessity as self-interest in terms of security.

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The BBC's United Nations correspondent Barbara Plett said there was a sense that the National Transition Council needed the money immediately and that countries were not willing to wait for the United Nations to pass another resolution.

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While the transition facing each of these countries is unique and while the resources of West Germany provide an opportunity for rapid change not available elsewhere, there will nonetheless likely be salutary effects and lessons to be learned throughout the region from the East German experience.

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If Greek firms have an instinctive feel for business trends in countries to their north, that is because their own country has undergone an almost equally rapid transition in recent memory.

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