The transmission systems are located in the US states of Illinois, Indiana Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

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Released on Friday, the GDP report shows that Real Gross Domestic Product (the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the US) increased at an annual rate of 1.5 percent in Q2 of 2012.

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The firm, which has 285 clients, of which 70% are located in the US and Europe, has a backup plan to shift ongoing work to its development centers in Hyderabad and Poland if the situation gets any worse, said Natarajan.

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And many of these new positions are outside the US, located in the emerging economies (India, China, Eastern Europe) where demand is high.

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The US's largest force in Africa is located in Djibouti.

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"In my view, people that were actually on the same floor located right next to us who did not continue down with us, who turned around and went back up, or who hesitated, or who thought about it and looked out a window, who didn't make it out, " Simmon said.

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Another wad of overseas investment came from Tata, the Indian mega-multinational, which located its US consultancy services northeast of Cincinnati in 2008.

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The company's headquarters are in New Orleans and its lone US factory is located on Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

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