But that would be a difficult gesture politically, because Russian travellers face strict visa controls in most western countries.
The driverless car might also save developing countries from ever having to replicate the car-centric infrastructure that has emerged in most western countries.
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This had come to pass in Japan in the late 1990s and again in the early 2000s, but had not occurred in most Western countries since the late 1950s.
Mortality from TB had already fallen by 75% in most Western countries by 1950, when streptomycin became available, and the rate of fall was little different before and after.
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Forming a legal entity and constructing a new workshop are relatively straightforward and will happen more quickly than in most Western countries. (Company executives are constantly amazed by how quickly buildings seem to go up in China.) Completing the legal work and building factories are the easy parts, however.
Traditionally, class figured less in politics in America than in most other Western countries, supposedly because the United States, though more economically unequal, and rougher in tone, was more socially equal, more diverse, more democratic, and better at giving ordinary people the opportunity to rise.
In most Western European countries, the difference is even more stark, with iPhones outnumbering Android phones nearly ten to one.
He wrote back to Mr McCreevy to point out that foreign banks already own around 17% of the Italian banking sector, more than in most western European countries.
Many poor countries provide legal protection for workers that rivals that in the most welfare-minded western European countries.
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But we are fighting, in the most literal sense, to safeguard democracy in those countries of Western Europe and overseas where it has taken root.
During the last extended period of petrodollar surpluses, in the 1970s, western banks lent their new deposits to developing countries, most of them in Latin America and Asia.
The Quarterly TV Design and Features Report results also found that sales of 3D glasses in Western Europe remain low, with most countries failing to achieve 1:1 sales of glasses to sets.
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The Kunming police, like the most liberal health-care officials in western countries, talk much of the need for community care and counselling once the inmates return home, as well as education efforts at schools.
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Most Western countries ban it: in Britain, where around 66, 000 women have undergone some form of cutting and some 33, 000 girls are thought to be at risk, it is also a crime to take a British resident abroad in order to cut her.
Most big Western firms are already present in these countries, selling their patented products.
Ambassador GUIJIN: (Through Translator) The Western countries and Western oil companies have, for years, carried out oil exploration in the most oil-rich regions in the world.
The pro-Western Arab countries most closely involved, in particular Egypt, are still keen to bolster Mr Abbas's party and keep Hamas out of the negotiating game.
Now most Western countries have criminalised it (as England did in 1991).
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Thursdays and Fridays or Fridays and Saturdays are non-working days in most of the Muslim world but some say this disrupts work with Western countries, who have Saturdays and Sundays off.
Advancements that most western countries have as a matter of course are not necessarily the norm in places like South Africa.
They point out that Western governments place huge taxes on oil and therefore most of the money goes to Western governments rather than oil-producing countries in the Middle East.
Large majorities in most Muslim populations, except Indonesia and Turkey, reckon that western-style democracy can work in their countries.
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Transparency International's corruption-perceptions index suggests that corruption is rife: in 2010, on a scale from one (the worst) to ten, Western Europe's five most populous countries received an average score of 6.5, whereas the three most populous countries in the Middle East averaged 3.2 (Turkey scored 4.4, Egypt 3.1 and Iran 2.2).
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