But for BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM), the middle zone appears treacherous.
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Neil Robertson, a tech entrepreneur who blogs and runs a paid-search marketplace firm called Trada, just came up with this term I love called halfnimity, or that middle zone online between anonymity and real identity.
It is the most populous of the Arab nations adjoining the Middle Eastern conflict zone, with an ancient tradition of Islamic scholarship, and a citizenry that is tempted by fundamentalism but also admires some things about the West.
Some see it as a safe haven for their money, away from the Middle East or the euro zone.
We are pricing in problems in the euro zone and the Middle East.
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It is partly thanks to the success of Aqaba and the free trade agreement with the US that US President George W Bush recently announced plans to expand the free trade zone throughout the Middle East.
And its government is well-off, getting revenue from an industrial free-trade zone sited in the middle of the rainforest.
My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series), but too young to demolish YA books about vampires by the dozen.
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According to the newspaper's account, the US is discussing Egypt's demand that the Middle East become a nuclear-free zone.
He suggested that the Middle East should become a nuclear-free zone.
Among other possibilities, that proposal may have included a US agreement to appoint a UN envoy responsible for organizing a UN conference calling for the Greater Middle East to become a nuclear-free zone.
While the European Union permits the free movement of goods and services throughout the 27-member zone, moving goods around the Middle East is nothing like as simple, with import and export duties to be paid and extensive bureaucracy.
An ECB research paper released on Thursday estimated that the three-year loans will add between 0.7% and 0.8% to euro-zone gross domestic product by the middle of this year, in part by allowing banks to lend the money out into the economy.
NPT, and for the Middle East to be declared a nuclear-free zone.
In addition to the new peace plan, Bush will also discuss his proposal for creation of a free trade zone between the United States and the Middle East, Rice said.
The correction into June fell right in the middle of the 38.2% to 50% Fibonacci support zone, which set up a low-risk buying opportunity last June.
France, the euro zone's second-largest economy, finds itself in the middle: not in recession, but at risk of being sucked into the Mediterranean vortex.
"This could reflect some increase in risk tolerance with more positive investor sentiment generally in response to reduced uncertainties over the euro zone, " says Peter Damesick, chairman of research in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for CBRE.
Zajac gathered the puck at the right point, skated into the zone, and sent a cross-ice pass to Elias, who came down the middle for a redirection through Clemmensen's pads at 1:24.
Instead of occurring at a plate boundary along an area called a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another, this earthquake occurred in the middle of an oceanic plate, where the faults in the crust essentially moved from side to side instead of up and down.
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But their location and time zone may put them at a disadvantage when it comes to attracting money from Asia and the Middle East, particularly when there are closer low-tax spots, such as Singapore.
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