The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate in the industrial world, except for Japan's.
This assembly method was a great success and was widely adopted throughout the industrial world.
Britain might have done better to pioneer the post-industrial world it is now entering.
Maine is often cited as one of the industrial world's few examples of a sustainable commercial fishery.
The entire industrial world is at the opposite end of an arc of government growth and sustainability today.
We have half the vacation time of the rest of the industrial world.
Growth can help pull the masses out of grinding poverty and create new business opportunities in the industrial world.
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He has pushed for higher taxes and spending cuts to tackle Japan's national debt, the biggest in the industrial world.
We used to retire people at 65 because in an industrial world their bodies were tired and their lifespan was nearly complete.
After all, what do pre-industrial world temperature trends have anything to tell us about the effect of man-made Co2 on 20th century temperatures?
Tokyo-based foreign correspondents have instead promoted approved themes, notably the myth that Japan has become the basket case of the industrial world.
Britain now suffers among the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the advanced industrial world, and unlike in most countries, boozing is on the upswing.
Emerging-market economies like Singapore, heavily dependent on high-tech exports to the industrial world, suffered an even greater economic contraction than America, their biggest customer, did.
Its arcane rules require 55 countries (who must represent at least 55% of the industrial world's greenhouse-gas emissions in 1990) to ratify the pact before it comes into force.
As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has pointed out in its latest assessment, the performance gap between America and the rest of the industrial world is widening.
So we can expect America's population to continue growing at close to the highest rate in the advanced industrial world while Europe remains among the most rapidly aging places on earth.
Gas is a bargain here compared to much of the industrial world, but life in the U.S. is built around cars -- and fuel isn't considered a finite resource, it's a right.
The divide over agriculture threatens to undermine Doha because the developing countries, which object most strongly to the trade-distorting subsidies provided to farmers in the industrial world, were such reluctant participants in the first place.
In a report for Rio Tinto and the Australian National University, Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song, two economists, argue that by 2020 China's demand for metals may increase by the equivalent of the industrial world's annual total demand now.
At the Gamba protected-area complex, on the coast of Gabon, patrolling rangers make daily logs of deposits of flotsam from the industrial world that has arrived on their remote Atlantic beaches at the same time as they record the comings and goings of the local leatherback turtles.
The 35% federal corporate tax rate is now the highest in the industrial world, leading companies to locate their most profitable operations outside the U.S. Big multi-national corporations such as GE have secured enough special deductions and tax credits to zero out their U.S. tax liabilities on their existing operations even as the high marginal rate encourages them to expand overseas.
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One impression from the exercise is the difficulty of introducing industrial-world values into industrialising-world plants.
The irony is that industrial production world-wide is at an all time high, as are corporate profits.
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Once the industrial envy of the world, it supported a huge industrial working class with single family detached homes and two car garages.
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There is, he says, more spare industrial capacity around the world than during previous metals booms, thanks partly to China's rapid growth as an industrial power.
We led the world in the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century, and we lead the world again in computer and biotech revolutions.
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General Electric is one of the largest and most diversified industrial corporations in the world.
And American productivity growth is the envy of the industrial countries around the world.
So in 2003, he jumped from an in-your-face consumer business to the obscure world of industrial gases, a purely business-to-business activity.
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