America has hollowed out its manufacturing in just the same way as the U.K. before it.
At times, the company has built a two-story temporary structure in the parking lot in front of the Central Hall just to accommodate its briefing schedule, while at the same time putting together a substantial booth on the floor itself.
It's also because although Germany could probably afford a 50% writedown of what it's owed, given the strength of its economy and public finances (the writedown, excluding the Target2 credit, would be equivalent to just over 1% of its GDP), the same probably can't be said of Spain, Italy or even France (where the writedown costs would also be around 1% of GDP).
The Oregon Health Experiment, with its results posted today, is just the latest study to show the same result.
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The company, having over-expanded in the U.S. with its stores outside of the successful flagships, may have just done the same thing in Europe.
The discount giant announced over the weekend that its same-store sales for October grew by just 0.5%, the company's most anemic monthly growth rate since 2000.
The BeagleBone might be just the piece of kit for the DIY set itching to boot Linux in 10 seconds, but the freshly unveiled BeagleBone Black packs an even greater punch -- and the same speedy start times -- at just half the price of its predecessor.
The group grew its TV subscriber base by just 10, 700 new customers, which was up on the same period last year when the company lost TV customers.
In fact, it just agreed to hold on to 154 of its 463 leased planes under the same old terms.
The same can be said about BlackBerry, which just launched its new phones to and underwhelming reception.
The crew over at GPSMagazine has certainly been busy of late, as just days after putting the Maestro 3100 through its paces, reviewers are now giving the same treatment to LG's LN740.
At the same time, the music community is just now beginning to gain its footing in this new digital world.
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Indeed, the season appears to be kicking off early, as Wal-Mart says its same-store sales for October grew by just 0.5%, the company's most anemic monthly growth rate since 2000.
So you can know that it is a good company the same way I can, without having to guess whether all its claims are just marketing.
Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church is best known through events like its mass weddings, where thousands of couples are married at the same time, having only just met their lifetime partner.
These people are not only rich but also exceptionally clever, because America has become expert at sending its brightest to the same elite universities, where they intermarry and confer on their offspring not just wealth but also a cognitive advantage that gives this class terrific staying power.
Just as people have come to trust the Napa Valley name and its overall promise of quality, the same should go for Central Otago.
In a 6-1 decision on November 21st, its Supreme Court ordered that same-sex marriages performed abroad must be recognised by the state, just as heterosexual unions, sealed abroad, are already.
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It masks the fact that, just like its Republican duopolistic partner in crime, the Democratic Party is beginning to split apart along the same fissure that rends the Republican Party, i.e.
And the same combination did for the right-handed Clarke as an excellent delivery held its line just outside off stump.
It was intended to be just as well-loved here, with its funky styling theme that was both boxy and curvy at the same time.
Skyrider just joins the network, same as anyone else, and starts offering up content--only its stuff comes with ads attached.
Its upcoming 2012 Veloster coupe weighs just 2, 584 pounds (400 pounds lighter than a Scion tC and about the same as a Mini hardtop) and will deliver 138 horsepower and get up to 40 miles per gallon with its little 1.6-liter gasoline direct-injection engine.
Yes, when I stomped the pedal from a standing start in the lightweight SL 550 (the all-aluminum body shaves 300 pounds off the previous generation roadster) and engaged its monstrous twin turbo V8, I could feel the skin on my face pulling back just as when I did the same thing in a V12 Aston Martin Vantage, a feeling I cannot replicate in my own 7-year old BMW 3 series.
Probably if Obama treated Israel with the same friendliness his predecessor showered on its leaders, Netanyahu would have been willing to walk the plank just as Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon did, in the interests of helping the team.
In its place we can then simplify personal taxation: just treat all investment income (yes, dividends and capital gains) the same as we treat any other form of income, to be taxed at whatever is the appropriate marginal rate for the total income of the recipient.
But I think, broadly speaking, this President took up the issue of Wall Street reform and is committed to its implementation because it's important that everybody play by the same set of rules and that -- not just because that's how it should be, but because it's important for our economy and it's important for the global economy.
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