Politicians will not dismantle the single market, but there is a lot they can do to meddle: doling out state aids, encouraging mergers and alliances to create national or European "champions", and taking an aggressive stance on foreign imports through things like anti-dumping complaints.
The foreign investment banks have two things that most domestic firms lack: access to big foreign institutional customers, which buy many of these financial instruments, and expertise in the techniques of modern finance.
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The candidate who should benefit from this is Mr Gephardt, who says angry things about foreign competition.
Scotland's Parliament is to be responsible for most things except foreign policy, defence, immigration, social security and macroeconomics.
Yet the increasing foreign trade also provides things that are good for clusters.
"Speaking in terms of JGB investments, investors who need yield will ultimately extend the maturity of JGBs they are buying, and those who don't want to do that or can't do that will buy other things like foreign bonds or credit, and in some cases equity, " said Kenji Sakaguchi, chief investment officer at Prudential Investment Management Japan Co.
But what about things like the foreign service pay, an alternate F-35 jet engine?
And there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity -- our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture.
More recently, the appreciation of the Korean won has made things more expensive for foreign visitors, said Mr. Song.
Many of the things we were able to teach the twins, whether it was cleaning their own spaces, reading, doing math and other things, were totally foreign to their older sisters.
To begin with, foreign policy is one of the few things where being president matters.
Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy.
We get yet another chance to determine if the Fed and its foreign counterparts are superhuman saviors of all things economic, or simply bunglers with very large pocketbooks that have staved off but not reduced the chances of a tremendous economic and market correction.
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We had a whole bunch of things we had to do on foreign policy, too.
Things were not much better in foreign policy, something Obama might consider as he listens to proposals to intensify military operations in Afghanistan.
Nafeh, 63, in late 2004 launched HedgeStreet, a vehicle for making tradable microbets on the prices of things like homes, gold, foreign currencies and oil.
In other words, a foreign inflow, as well as financing good things such as public infrastructure and corporate investment, is also associated with debt defaults, inflation and currency crises.
"There are voices always from all sides who say that certain things are wrong, " says UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
"You had to be nice to a general director and do things like taking him on tours in foreign countries, " he recalls.
And, indeed, that was how things appeared to be shaping up when Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar called for a vote last Tuesday.
Before that time, it was basically clear that outside of wartime (when gold-standard conventions were often suspended), you could basically count on the dollar holding its value against major things like the consumer price level, foreign currencies, and commodities such as gold itself.
But when foreign buyers decline to seek pre-transaction approval, things can get far more complicated.
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But is the U.S. economy teetering enough to compel foreign investors to pull out their money, thereby making things worse?
But things did not work out that way in foreign affairs, and other sorts of convergence may be coming to an end, too.
Yes, things are so desperate in Japan that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.
"There are so many things that I talk about that are absolutely foreign to him, ... even eating a chicken shawarma, the best sandwich in the entire world, " she added.
If we are going to fight climate change, cut pollution and put the kibosh on our foreign oil dependence, this is just the sort of things we will need to do.
The shipping container has done this again over the past 50 years: there is almost no level of legal or tax trade protection that could have stopped foreign goods getting ever cheaper as the costs of hauling things from country to country fell ever lower.
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The film offers privileged views of writer-editor conferences under deadline pressures and page-one editorial meetings (which are rather stiff), but it ignores the many other things the paper does well, such as foreign, financial, and national-affairs reporting, and Rossi misses the underbrush, the secret life and murmured music of the place.
Yet, as with foreign policy, there is little agreement on how to change things.
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