But former IOC Director Michael Payne said such pre-Olympic jitters were only to be expected, and were common in host countries prior to the opening ceremony.
Since its inception in 1961, the Peace Corps has lost at least 287 volunteers to disease, road accidents, crime, and other hazards in their host countries.
But a significant part of the dollar inflow comes from Filipinos working abroad, an income source vulnerable to policy and political changes in the host countries.
This past month, Peace Corps staff, returned Volunteers and our regional recruiting offices across the country commemorated the anniversary through local service projects, both in the United States and in Peace Corps host countries.
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This week, Google teams in 28 cities across 13 countries will host events for entrepreneurs in their local communities.
The 1961 Vienna Convention says that diplomats are immune from prosecution in countries that host them.
The future of U.S. policy and interests in the region will largely depend on who ends up in power, not just in Egypt but in the host of other countries on the verge of transformation.
In all, nine countries are bidding to host the World Cup in either 2018 or 2022, with two more nations focusing their bids on 2022 alone.
In fact, according to this study by Matt Slaughter, over 93 percent of the sales of U.S. foreign affiliates are made in the host or other foreign countries.
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In many poorer countries which host heritage sites, the biggest changes since 1972 have been exploding populations and a huge rise in global tourism, combined with a lack of the governance needed to cope with both phenomena.
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And you are now seeing a situation in which a whole host of other countries are doing very well and coming into their own, and naturally they are going to be more assertive in terms of their interests and ideas.
In doing so they rely on the host countries and they rely on the business partners and above all they rely on the athletes.
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If the U.S. does create a sole privacy watchdog, it will be following in the footsteps of a host of other countries that have passed Privacy Acts and created Privacy Commissioners to oversee them.
The association between finance and international strategy is particularly notable in the contemporary business world, in which the numbers of countries that host companies operating internationally, and the heterogeneity among them, have increased a great deal.
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To open up the sport to such regions, FIFA will again be staging "Fan Fests" as it did four years ago, this time extending the live match presentations to the nine host cities in South Africa and seven countries including Brazil, Mexico, Britain and Australia.
With host countries strained and winter settling in on refugee camps, the crisis is expected to worsen.
But as it has expanded to host over 1, 000 stores in 44 countries across Europe and Asia, that distinctive characteristic has been compromised, creating an identity crisis.
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The panel's report released Wednesday found the financial contributions by those host countries lagging behind costs or increases in U.S. spending.
The system was originally built in 1960 by technicians and engineers from a host of countries including France, Poland and Italy.
Beijing has agreed a host of energy deals with other countries in the past year, including Venezuela and Malaysia, and is currently negotiating with Iran over gas imports.
Baratta said the presence of South American countries had been boosted by the Italo-Latin American Institute, which has a large exhibition space in Venice it has used to host work from smaller countries.
And he said its attraction could be seen in the fact that many countries were looking to host the 2018 World Cup, putting their hats into the ring years before the 2010 event had been played.
Tickets for concerts in Brazil are due to go on sale next week -- along with seats for four concerts which are still to be announced, in four more countries, two of which will host Iron Maiden for the first time.
Hundreds of thousands of other refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and other countries bordering Syria, such as Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, are living in host communities, often in unheated, unfurnished buildings or makeshift shelters, where it is even harder for them to get the help they need.
How Thein Sein responds to inevitable questioning about these issues during his European tour will influence how quickly his host countries are willing to put their faith in the new Burma, and replace sanctions with much-needed aid and investment, our correspondent says.
The host countries for 2018 and 2022 are being decided in December 2010 and there are currently 10 different bids on the table.
When Israel won for the second year in a row in 1979, the organisers allowed other countries to bid to host the event.
Given the violence that plagued Colombia in the early 2000s, the political situation in Venezuela and the lack of basic infrastructure in the Andean countries, they narrowed their list of possible host cities to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Sao Paulo and Rio in Brazil, Herzog said.
European stock and derivatives exchanges saw themselves in competition with each other, as did their host cities and countries: finance was deemed a growth industry, and slogans abounded as governments saw a local stock or futures market as a way to create high-paying jobs and ample tax revenues.
Since host countries are allowed to field teams for every sport in the Olympics and the country might not have a team for every sport, they often muster one.
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