The style with which it established its European operations, with a lavish head count and high editorial costs, was indicative of the confidence felt by many new economy firms.

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For the fourth quarter, Baker Hughes expects international operations to be impacted by a lower rig count in Brazil and Columbia and activity delays in the North Sea.

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The United States, therefore, can invoke that section of the charter and count on the support of its NATO allies in mounting military operations.

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And there is increasing indirect American investment in the island: many of the multinationals from Europe and Canada that have set up operations in Cuba since Mr Castro's opening to foreign investment a decade ago count American institutions among their shareholders.

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The public proposition, at this point, anyway, is not that drones will subjugate or assassinate unwitting citizens but that they will conduct search-and-rescue operations, fight fires, catch bad guys, inspect pipelines, spray crops, count nesting cranes and migrating caribou, and measure weather data and algae growth.

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By our count, the crisis that began with the earthquake of March 11 has created shortages at the operations of more than 25 companies, including Sony (SNE), Panasonic (PC), Toshiba, Renesas, and Sandisk (SNDK).

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