Although Qatari businessmen now have a strong foothold in French and Spanish football, they remain without a key base in the English Premier League, which boasts the highest attendance figures in European football.
But the moves - which include closing a key air base and replacing it with a new base in the north of the island - are stalled amid entrenched opposition in Okinawa to the construction of the new base.
First and foremost economics: China already is or will in time become that largest and fastest growing market for a range of Japanese exports, a key production base for its industrial companies, and a source of important imports, from finished goods, to parts, to primary materials and food.
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Gardner's right shoulder slammed into the fence but he held onto the ball, denying Murphy a key extra-base hit for the second consecutive night.
The Kentucky senator starts with a key advantage: the base of more than a million supporters of his father, a libertarian Republican who sought the presidency in 1988, 2008 and 2012.
Mr Davies confirmed that science and a robust evidential base were key to reform and that he had asked officials to strengthen the evidence around key stocks covered by the Common Fisheries Policy.
However to remain competitive, Toshiba needs a technology base with its key component suppliers.
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Further strengthening this retail base is a key part of our development strategy.
Both parties have stressed voter turnout efforts and hope the tight presidential race, the closest in decades, will bring out the party's base supporters in key battleground districts.
But when it comes to key votes pushed by their base, the people who provide money to politicians, the organizers, the talk show hosts, then the politicians find they are going to have to rally to really satisfy hard-line principles.
The key is the five axes its base rotates on, allowing individual wheels to be lifted off the ground and moved in a walking style.
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While that rate of defections might seem worrisome, the company paints its "churn rate" as an enviable statistic in its prospectus, calling its "loyal customer base" one of its key strengths.
He's a charismatic outsider to the national business culture and a guy who believes in a key idea: that a mass customer base is waiting to step up to airline and hotel services that are made reachable and desirable.
These unions, representing public-sector workers, are a key part of Mr Sweeney's power base.
It has a low cost base and support from British Airways in key areas such as sales and marketing.
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It also underplays another key aspect: West Berlin's usefulness as a base for western spies and snoopers.
Larkin never led the National League in any key offensive categories and only eclipsed .400 in on base percentage twice (1996-1997).
The battle between Blair and Eoin Reddan at the base of the scrum could one of the key battles of the game.
Bhutto's support appears to be slipping in the key province of Punjab and in Sind, the traditional base of her Pakistan People's Party (PPP).
Still, according to analysts, HSBC can take advantage of its local presence in key growing markets where it has a long-standing base, especially in Asia.
If Republicans could hone their strengths as champions of economic growth, consumers, entrepreneurs and innovators while coming to compromise on key issues, I am confident that they can broaden their base and claim a victory in 2016.
In order to strengthen the information base for Congressional consideration and to facilitate input from key stakeholders, the participating agencies, led by the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, will hold a series of workshops across the country and issue a separate RFI in April.
One of the key parts, as Qualcomm sees it, is small cell base stations in homes, offices and retail spaces working in tandem with the large cell towers that currently adorn so many roofs and mountain tops -- the same thing ex-FCC head honcho Julian Genachowski talked about last year.
She paid a short visit to a Royal Marine base at The Citadel, where she symbolically touched the key to the fortification.
But Mr Gore desperately needed a way to connect with a restive Democratic base (and to slow Ralph Nader's advance in key states like California).
Users simply place their laptop on the base of the unit and close the side arm, with no key or cable required.
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Among seven key IT staff positions covering applications and systems responsibilities, four have seen increases in average base salaries over the past year, while three saw downturns.
Starting in early 2013, the four-year initiative will focus on enhancing teacher education systems in eight countries so as to train an adequate number of qualified teachers to achieve EFA. Project activities will boost national capacity in ministries and key teacher training institutions, staff skills and competencies and supporting resources such as a knowledge base, with ICT as a major component.
"We are keeping the faces of the key characters but we are re-designing the uniforms, developing totally new vehicles and Cloud Base will be bigger and better, " added Anderson.
The Street believes a key to the deal will be Microsoft finding new ways to monetize Skype, which has a huge base of users who pay nothing to use the service.
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