The NBA lockout came just as CBA teams were boosting their spending on foreign talent.
Davies described some English football academies as "finishing schools for young foreign talent".
Of course, none of the four teams still standing in Europe's foremost club tournament would have gotten this far without foreign talent.
For instance, Nomura, an investment bank, has been hiring foreign talent in Asia this year, including teams from Caspian, a defunct investment bank.
Even the rhetorical support promised by Mr Cameron could help, says one investor, by publicising quiet success stories and attracting foreign talent and capital.
Higher unemployment may trigger hostility to immigrant labour, making it harder for Europe to reform its ungenerous visa and work-permit rules so as to attract foreign talent.
The new complicated form undermines Congressional intent for the H-1B process, which is to provide U.S. employers relatively quick access to foreign talent without wasteful bureaucratic reviews.
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Foreign talent is likely to move back overseas.
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He said unemployment in the U.S. tech industry has been at 4 percent or below, even during the worst days of the global recession, and so high tech companies need to bring in foreign talent.
An infusion of foreign talent into a country with a faltering professional league and poor World Cup performances has paid dividends over the long term in knowledge-sharing and experience, contributing to revivals of both professional league and World Cup play.
Allowing highly skilled workers, entrepreneurs and investors into the country will harness more of the foreign entrepreneurial talent that built Silicon Valley and many other industries.
It is clear that Russia understands the importance of greater integration with the global economy, including links with the WTO, OECD and the EU and making itself more attractive to both foreign investment and talent.
Stricter limits, they said, would result in a loss of talent to foreign rivals willing to pay up.
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Some of the big Chinese makers have realised that there is no point reinventing the wheel when there is so much foreign technology and design talent for sale.
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Thai Airways could desperately use an injection of money and talent from a foreign carrier, but it seems unlikely to get either under Mr Thaksin, a telecoms tycoon turned politician.
The fact that he is English ought to delight those who accuse Wenger of operating in a manner detrimental to the national team by disregarding local talent in favour of foreign imports.
And it has the greatest concentration of creative talent, most of it foreign, thanks to the stifling rigidity of the French educational system.
In such an environment, foreign companies are only too happy to recruit female talent.
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His parents were assimilated Jews (his father worked in the German Foreign Office) who encouraged their son's drawing talent by sending him to art schools in Weimar and Paris.
On the other side of the coin were the operatives, whose talent was spotting potential informants and spies in foreign countries, and developing these assets into reliable sources of information.
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Until recently, the foreign multinationals (MNCs) held a competitive advantage when sourcing talent in the Chinese market.
He pumps billions into university research in places like Ireland and Australia because he believes it creates a skilled workforce and attracts top talent, setting the table for high-tech industry and foreign direct investment.
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For top Chinese talent, the glamour and status once associated with employment at a foreign multinational is beginning to lose its sparkle.
Although a few Japanese firms have sought Pasona's services, foreign affiliates can often make better use of Japan's diversity of young talent.
While only 12 percent of the U.S. population is foreign-born, 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition were the children of immigrants, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis.
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Taylor cited the influx of foreign players into the English game as a major reason for managers not sticking with homegrown talent.
"Lack of talent in the United States and the abundance of talent in countries such as India" is the reason for high demand for foreign tech worker visas, said Ameet Nisarkar, senior vice president of NASSCOM.
Half to two-thirds of graduate students on U.S. campuses in key technology fields are foreign nationals, meaning it is unrealistic to expect employers can ignore such a large pool of talent and still compete globally.
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