Now of course, both China or India are more regulated than either Europe or America.
The streets and towns of Japan are made to look like France or America.
Her goal is a Singapore spot in the mode of France's Le Cordon Bleu or America's Culinary Institute.
Liberal Jewish community centers in America wouldn't show it, nor would university student organizations in Europe or America.
"This is not a question of export to Europe or America, " she says.
This is fine for flying tiny microchips into Europe or America from Asia, but too expensive for clunkier goods.
Unlike in Britain or America where soap stars are not usually considered A-list, in Brazil they are the A-list.
Their brands, though well established at home, are unknown in Europe or America.
Expanding production in Argentina or America takes you into drier marginal lands which are much more expensive to farm.
In 2005 they spent more on shopping, per day and per trip, than travellers from Europe, Japan or America.
New concerns over Bank or America ( BAC) and Goldman Sachs ( GS) helped stocks to reverse to the downside.
But during its mandate, it lacked the muscular backing of the European Union or America required to make real progress.
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Others, like Britain or America, keep information in quite separate databases dealing with, say tax, pensions, elections, passports, driving licences and health care.
France was neither a big supplier of international credit, like Germany or Japan, nor reliant on borrowing, like Spain, Britain or America.
"Maybe one day it will be in France or America, " he muses.
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Which country has the largest number of billionaires, China or America?
Comcast hopes to find a white knight (perhaps Microsoft or America Online) concerned about so much cable being controlled by one company.
As Mr Bhalla points out, a dollar earned in America buys much more in Ethiopia or India than in Japan or America itself.
Traditional Japanese companies lack both the credibility to make big acquisitions in Europe or America, and the management skills to make them work.
If implemented, the theory runs, these proposals would transform East Asia into a cohesive economic block, with as much clout as Europe or America.
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Yet many foreign managers working locally say bosses in Europe or America do not understand these problems, or do not want to hear about them.
But subscribers might not prove so open-minded in Europe or America.
All this adds up to slight tinkering, rather than the kind of retreat from multiculturalism seen in parts of Europe, or America's harder line against illegal immigration.
On the one hand comes greatly increased space: the typical American dwelling now has two rooms per person, double Europe's level or America's half a century ago.
In Asia, the temptation for producers to play foul may be even greater than in Europe or America, because economic power tends to be concentrated in fewer hands.
Correspondents say that the reluctance of the allies to offer resources for Afghanistan has dogged the credibility of Nato's first mission outside Europe or America in its 55-year history.
Most of these have a multiracial cast, look to Africa for inspiration rather than clinging to images of Europe or America, or poke fun at South African racial stereotypes.
It is ideal terrain for airlines: a region dominated by sprawling archipelagoes, where planes therefore face little competition from roads and high-speed trains, as they do in Europe or America.
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So far not even Mr Blair has felt able to endorse either the American idea that Iraq is an imminent threat (as opposed to a longer-term one), or America's concept of pre-emption.
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