Apart from some of the industries mentioned above, Japan forms part of the global supply chain and would affect industries around the world.

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Two-fifths of Asian exports, and rising, are intra-regional even if half that share forms part of a global supply-chain anchored in the West.

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With other forms of debt either in short supply or too risky, institutional investors are loading up on longer-term government bonds, says Daniel Dektar, chief investment officer of Smith Breeden Associates, a Durham, N.

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Supply chains come in a number of different forms, and some companies use more than one for different parts of their business.

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To understand how ultra-easy money for a prolonged period of time misguides animal spirits, we define and distinguish two forms, demand-side entrepreneurship and supply-side entrepreneurship.

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Such sanctions can also be undermined by so-called "foreign availability" (or the ability of other foreign companies to step in and supply the same product) and constrain potentially useful people-to-people contact and other forms of bridge-building with potential adversaries or competitor nations.

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In the past week, the Canadian government threatened to buy generic forms of Cipro from other drug companies, but it, too, reached an agreement to rely on Bayer to supply the anti-anthrax drug Cipro and only use generic drugs if the company can't deliver.

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