We just wonder if there is room in the flat panel world for both plasma and LCD.
Many areas are simply impossible to protect, such as the Brahmaputra valley in Assam, where one of the mightiest rivers in the world keeps changing its course on its flat flood plain.
Given the slowdown in Europe and the emerging world, flat U.S. would accentuate the global weakness, probably sending the U.S. into a downturn.
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If all car firms in the world ran flat out, they could produce 68m cars a year (including other light vehicles such as pick-ups and sport utility vehicles).
The fact is that today, Facebook at its core, is flat on its face in the mobile world.
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The conventional wisdom on globalisation is that it produces a flat world in which everybody consumes the same bland products in the same bland settings: a universal airport lounge.
But other global brewers are keen to expand in Africa too, as they seek growth markets to compensate for flat or falling beer sales in the rich world.
Today Samsung is the world leader in flat-panel TVs and the number two in mobile phones.
Last year ABB helped complete the longest undersea link in the world, stretching 360 miles between hilly Norway and flat Netherlands.
In some parts of the world, particularly in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, flat taxes have been cited as a spark for economic growth.
Without the last days, in other words, the world might never have had 65-inch flat-screen televisions.
At the Nasdaq OMX Group, a single technician sits in front of eight flat-panel computer screens in a quiet operations center, 51 stories above the World Trade Center construction site.
He scored in both Tests against the world champions, leaving previous IRB Player of the Year winner Bryan Habana flat on his back in the first Test before bamboozling five Springboks to score in the Second Test in Pretoria.
I've chosen to find it comforting - a reminder that the companies in the FTSE 100 only make about 20% of their sales in the UK. So our companies can do well from growth in other parts of the world, even when the domestic economy is flat.
To save for big ticket items in the future - a deposit on a flat, a baby, a dream world trip - add another 10%.
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Novelis, which had been spun off from Alcan in 2005, had nearly a one-fifth share of the world market for flat-rolled aluminum, used for making beverage cans and auto parts.
And while sales of microchips in Europe during November were up by a reasonable 5.3%, and those in Asia Pacific by just under half that amount, sales in America, the world's largest market for microchips, were still virtually flat.
Since then, in an environment where revenues are flat-to-down across the board and where the world-wide transfer market is down 30-40%, Audi has reduced their stake in Bayern.
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However, if today's "flat world" means that a student in Jordan or Budapest, Hungary, or the Gangsu province of China has the same educational opportunities as a student in Palo Alto, Calif.
Caterpillar expects large increases in its 2008 sales figures throughout the world, with the exception of North America, where it sees only flat to 3.0% growth from 2007.
In our world-is-flat, winner-take-all economy, many futurists said the winners would fall into two camps: super nimble start-ups from Silicon Valley (and similar hotbeds) wielding world-class technology and talent and the largest multinationals with brand, reach and fortress balance sheets.
In the past six months, flat-screen plasma televisions have accounted for nearly half of all TVs sold around the world.
It is also confronting the grim reality that, in a world filled with e-mail and cell phones, greeting card sales are flat.
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