Yet, the globalization of finance means that no major country goes unscathed by a GIIPS restructuring.
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If the currency of each major country is bound to gold, financial headaches would of course be reduced.
According to Mr Miron at Harvard University, the US has historically been the most prohibitionist of any major country.
Internet shopping is more popular in the UK than in any other major country, a survey from regulator Ofcom suggests.
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This is the second time in two months that Brazil has won a case against a major country's farm subsidies.
News of McCready's death spread quickly Sunday night on Twitter with major country stars paying their respects to Nashville's onetime darling.
After the fall of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th century, Russia was the only major country to profess Orthodox Christianity.
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Poor in natural resources but highly skilled at manufacturing, Germany exports more goods and services as a percentage of its GDP than any other major country worldwide.
At that time, bankers were concerned that the United States was the last major country without a central bank which would provide emergency credit in times of financial crisis.
Given the choice, diplomats and international officials almost always prefer to have the devil they know in charge of a major country, not to have to get to grips with someone new.
Ironically, China now leads the pack in terms of putting in place an appropriate fiscal stimulus--and is currently the only major country to heed the IMF's call for coordinated global fiscal expansion.
It is also the only major country that continues to maintain a health-care system with substantial elements of competitive supply, pricing freedom, patient choice, and diversity in approaching complex and uncertain medical problems.
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We devote less of our resources to that than any other major country in the world and yet, about half of America's legacy will be determined by whether we have the adequate resources to do that.
"Senegal is a major African country and a model of democracy, " he said.
The Paris-based body predicted that economic output in the UK will fall by 1.1% next year, more than any other major G7 country.
That is a national humiliation for a major European country.
He talked of hard truths and painful decisions, a grave moment and an hour of reckoning, a serious risk that Britain might not remain a major industrial country.
And it was very important to us diplomatically to see this as an opportunity to give a major developing country a leading role in one of these international bodies for the first time.
We have all kinds of things in so many of our states -- manufacturing wind turbine components and solar panel components -- but we're the only major industrial country in the world without a manufacturing policy.
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Since power plants that burn natural gas emit about half the amount of the greenhouse gases as coal-fired power, some say that the gas drilling boom has helped the U.S. become the only major industrialized country to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions.
The damage of an 8.9 point offshore earthquake and subsequent tsunami that pummeled Japan Friday has yet to be tallied, but for a U.S. insurer with a major presence in the country the disaster is unlikely to have a major impact on the bottom line.
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"Just about every major city in country wanted the Enterprise, but New York has the right stuff and we won, " said New York Sen.
Just to put things in perspective, the difference between the two datasets often exceeds the total production of a major oil producing country like Canada.
But certainly we do know that debt is a major issue in this country.
All of us make choices everyday that have a Major IMPACT on Our Country.. Our World.
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Foreclosures in general have increased in 72% of all the other major cities across the country.
He also notes that the city has the lowest murder rate of any major city in the country.
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Its work brings to light another major issue facing the country after 10 years of war: orphaned children.
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