And sports business experts think that to extend its powerful arm overseas, the league may soon be ready to ramp up its initiatives in those markets, from individual player agreements and overseas TV deals to the implanting of MLB franchises.

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America has become a country that routinely hunts down and kills individual terrorist enemies overseas - apparently now in preference to capturing and detaining them indefinitely - and its citizens put up with more burdensome security restrictions in transportation and in public places than before, as well as with a somewhat less constricted system of domestic electronic surveillance.

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On another note, China is also likely to allow accredited individual investors to invest in overseas markets.

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Such moves open up plethora of options, such as the choice of venue for capital-raising, notably whetherat home or overseas, and where overseas, or the choice between separate listing of individual affiliates versus the corporation as a whole.

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Ironically, these "safe harbor" mechanisms were originally designed to protect individual investors from less-than-transparent overseas bonds.

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Smith hit 259, the best individual score in a Lord's Test by an overseas player, while Ntini was the matchwinner taking half the England wickets in each innings.

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We had discussed Mr. Niazi or anybody talking about sending money overseas and Mr. Niazi said none of those things were ever discussed between himself and this individual.

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