The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Carroll underwent a medical checkup at the American hospital in the Green Zone.
The fifth-placed team faces a two-leg playoff against the third-placed team in the CONCACAF North American qualifying zone.
On the other side are those who argue that the American deficit and debt are already in the red zone, and a further delay in cutting them could trigger a European-style debt crisis we cannot afford.
For example, upon learning that there was not a single complete edition of the Talmud in Germany, General Joseph McNarney, commander of the American zone of Occupied Germany, undertook an effort to print a Talmud for survivors.
This year multinational anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden (China's first active naval engagement beyond Asia) saw Chinese and American ships operating in the same zone and communicating with each other in a friendly enough manner.
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If most of the price reductions were concentrated in the months around the new year, they could well be sufficient to avert an American recession and revive financial confidence in the euro zone.
But European politicians' interference is not yet egregious enough to discourage the British and American private-equity firms that are becoming an increasing presence in the euro zone.
Around 20 countries have pledged to support Poland, which should itself have some 2, 300 people in Iraq by next month, and is supposed to take charge of a zone between the British one and the American one in Baghdad.
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To the extent that America's economic cycle typically leads the European cycle, American data may help to assess the future path of output and inflation in the euro zone.
These were value investors who refused to blanch at losses just so long as they believed the banks and the American International Group they owned remained in a zone of intrinsic value.
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An investor in the Subic Bay economic zone, a converted former American naval base, reckons that although 80% of the transport and telecoms links to the area are finished, that is enough to attract only 10-20% of potential investors.
Many of the American, British and other foreign workers based there never leave the Green Zone during their entire posting in the country.
European equities, which have on average underperformed American ones, look more attractive: the price-earnings ratio in the euro zone is 11.
With the added uncertainty caused by the ongoing Euro zone crisis, European banks are in even worse shape than their American counterparts.
In a recent series of meetings in Washington and London, French officials told their American and British counterparts that the threat "zone is evolving" as Mali militants have increasingly moved out of reach.
Cherchez la femme: in 1962, James Joseph Dresnok, an American soldier stationed on the South Korea side of the demilitarized zone, snuck away from guard duty to visit a woman.
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