In 2001, India opened its defense sector completely to local companies and 26% for foreign ones.
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The big exception is America, where domestic firms exported 15.3% of their output, foreign ones only 10.7%.
ClientLogic says there are many reasons why American firms might prefer hiring American call-centre workers to foreign ones.
Along the way, it discovered that customers, especially foreign ones, have strict cost requirements it needs to match.
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Another is to exchange access to domestic markets for access to foreign ones.
Now that Chinese companies have learned the ropes from foreign ones, Beijing seems to have had a change of heart.
Another observation: U.S. stocks do better than foreign ones (in dollar terms) in the last five months before a presidential election.
The third consequence of increased competition for places in elite schools has been the displacement of local pupils by foreign ones.
So instead of shifting sales from online to bricks-and-mortar, he might succeed in shifting them from U.S. online merchants to foreign ones.
" The heavyweight boxing fan favors mergers among local institutions and tie-ups with foreign ones "to build ourselves up into Mike Tyson.
Consumers' lost faith in Japanese insurers may be restored by foreign ones.
They are tired of the whingeing of overpaid financiers, especially foreign ones, and believe the economy has become overexposed to the banking industry.
Trade negotiations operate on the misguided mercantilist premise that opening domestic markets is a concession to be exchanged for access to foreign ones.
Already more than 40 companies, mostly foreign ones, offer call-back services.
Domestic punters may not compensate for a shortage of foreign ones.
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Rather than export their technologies, they hope to import foreign ones.
In neighbouring Saudi Arabia, reports suggest an indebted family conglomerate is trying to resolve its debts by favouring local banks at the expense of foreign ones.
This is good business for the airlines (half of the foreign ones which currently fly into Sri Lanka might well abandon the place if the exodus stopped).
In a bid to persuade investors, especially foreign ones, that it is serious about reform, the government wants most of this choreographed clean-up finished before deposit insurance is lifted in April.
Other clauses stipulate that sentences handed down by Colombian courts are not to be exceeded by foreign ones, and that no penalty can be imposed for crimes committed before extradition became law.
To take a more recent example, Arundhati Roy, India's Booker-prize novelist, not long ago wrote a long and impassioned article in one of India's weekly magazines portraying capitalists, especially foreign ones, as plunderers.
East-coast accents, let alone foreign ones, are rare.
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But the best way to reach China's older generation, as most local companies and, increasingly, many foreign ones are starting to realise, may be indirectly, by appealing to the Confucian values of respect for family elders.
Investment bankers say that some Japanese companies are so worried about rising public debt leading to a bond-market crash or to inflation (how else to get rid of debts of this size except by printing money?) that they are trying to shrink their domestic operations and expand their foreign ones.
Indian intelligence should find it easier to disrupt local outfits rather than foreign-based ones.
But being an "outsider" brings plenty of problems, Mr Bhusari says - not least, access to cash at a time when banks and investors are cautious about backing any small firms, never mind foreign-owned ones.
After all, there are still foreign countries involved, ones that are becoming more unstable like Morocco.
She collected data on 761 manufacturing firms operating in Spain, examined which ones were foreign hands and what their innovation output was in terms of new products introduced in the market.
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