Cablers want to force phone companies to have to get permission from just about every town and city in the country to furnish video products.

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"There's plenty of places where this could happen - you could have a moveable garden in every town or city in the country, " said Ms Collomb.

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"These would be cuts that impact not just DOJ employees, they would impact our citizens, and our safety, in every city and town in the country, " said Attorney General Eric Holder.

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And when France's Bourbon Group opened the country's largest supermarket, in a town just south of Ho Chi Minh City, it was flooded by shoppers unfamiliar with capitalistic mores.

ECONOMIST: Foreign direct investment