The Apprentice began in the US where billionaire Donald Trump began his catchphrase "you're fired" to kick contestants off the show.
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Far from consumer optimism, the rise in retail sales may reflect a situation in the US where consumers are making purchases merely because they can.
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While it might not be an issue in the US where the three main carriers have some form of LTE support, this will limit purchasing options in other countries.
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On Friday August 19, Sehat Sutardja, CEO and President of Marvell Semiconductor, gave a talk where he described how he got into electronics by learning to fix radios in Indonesia and how that eventually led to his coming to school in the US where he founded a major semiconductor company.
There will be much talk about how the eurozone crisis can be solved, what the next step should be in the US where a debt ceiling still casts a dark shadow over optimism, and about how income inequality has become a problem for all - rather than merely an advantage for haves over have-nots.
The matter is also being investigated in the US, where the Department of Justice said criminal investigations into "other financial institutions and individuals is ongoing".
The rise in costs would be even greater in the US, where obesity rates would rise from one in three to about one in two.
Given this possibility of simple exit from any and all of the European tax systems (and such exit does not require that one stays in the EU either) the theoretical peak of the Laffer Curve is lower in Europe than it is in the US. Where such exit is very much more difficult.
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The procedure is already available in the US, where it has doubled the rate of successful pregnancy.
And that has already put us in a position where the world is watching us in the Middle East, and where we do not have as much maneuvering room as we have had in the past.
The 43-year-old is a wanted man in the US, where he has been accused of "the biggest military computer hack of all time".
Survivor only ran for two series in the UK, but has proved hugely popular in the US, where it is in its sixth series.
This may be due to the fact that though UBS is well established in Europe and Asia, it faces much more competition in the US, where the industry is more fragmented with the presence of a large number of boutique wealth management service providers.
They are just back from nine years in the US, where they ran a building company.
She pointed to health care in the US - where she spends much time lecturing there these days.
And in the US, where the process is most advanced, there have been cases of water pollution linked to fracking.
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In the US, where AmazonLocal has been in operation for more than a year, the service is available in most major cities.
President Calderon has argued for immigration reform in the US, where there are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, many from Mexico.
This problem does not occur in the US system where doctors, largely, pay for their own training through borrowing to go to medical school.
In the US, where growth of nearly 2% is forecast for this year, the OECD said quantitative easing measures might need to be "gradually reduced".
Because people with jobs are way overworked in the US, where people work more hours per year than most if not all other OECD countries.
Some would point to similar complacency in the US, where the central bank has promised, in effect, to spend an unlimited amount getting unemployment down.
In the US, where an individual pneumococcal vaccine is given to children during the first 18 months, there has been a two thirds fall in the disease.
In the US, where patented drugs are the most expensive in the world, fakes have penetrated the pharmaceutical chain from drug manufacturers, through wholesalers, to high street pharmacies.
While the patchy coverage may frustrate users, it mirrored rollouts in the US, where deployments had typically launched with 30% to 60% coverage, said RootMetric's chief executive Bill Moore.
The Royal Opera has sold the production, along with its sets and costumes, to the Chicago Lyric Theatre in the US, where it will continue to be directed by Mr Cox.
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In effect, that is what you have had in the US, where output per worker has jumped by five percentage points since 2007, at the same time as national output (GDP) has risen by only one percentage point.
If all this had happened at a company in the US, where boards are more fastidious about the behaviour of executives and where investors are also pretty hot on punishing executives who cross a putative ethical line, this would already be a hot issue.
Banks in Europe, including the UK, are far more important to the provision of credit than is the case in the US. Roughly, European banks provide 80% of our credit needs, compared with 20% in the US - where securitisation that allows investors to lend is massively more significant.
The same is true of course in the US and in Europe, where the same kind of innovative brands are seizing the high ground from long established players.
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