Some banks may close accounts of U.S. citizens and sell off U.S. holdings rather than comply.
According to the OBR, it will slow the recovery a bit this year and next: GDP will grow by 1.2% rather than 1.3% in 2010 and by 2.3% rather than 2.6% in 2011.
The three-month Libor is at 3.77%, according to UBS, and the difference between that and the overnight rate suggests "interbank lending is broken, " said William O'Donnell, the head of U.S. interest rate strategy at UBS. Rather than extend credit for longer than overnight, banks appear to be hoarding cash.
In February 2011, in a meeting with Silicon Valley's biggest entrepreneurs, President Barack Obama asked Steve Jobs of Apple what it would take to make iPhones in the U.S. rather than China.
The report sees Europe as a "producer" of security rather than a consumer, meaning it can help the U.S. rather than relying on the U.S. for security assistance.
This is a frequent criticism of advocacy groups - that the money they raise simply perpetuates a self-promoting cycle of expensive films, travel etc... rather than putting money into local communities.
That last point raises another free-lunch possibility: If we would lower the U.S. tax on foreign source earnings, much of them would flow back to the U.S. for investment here rather than abroad.
It is the first time an Asian media company is developing its own U.S. programming rather than acquiring most of it.
Keeping this in mind, you may want to design your own personal benchmark that measures absolute performance (i.e. performance vs. your investment goals) rather than performance relative to the market.
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Meanwhile, Switzerland may be looking for more cooperation from the U.S. government rather than protracted negotiations or additional indictments.
If labor force participation in June 2011 were the same as June 2009 (65.7%), the reported unemployment rate would be 11.2% rather than 9.1%.
If the rate of labor force participation in June 2011 were the same as it was in June 2009 (65.7%), the reported unemployment rate would be 11.2% rather than 9.1%.
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At Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Roger Eldredge, a Delta gate agent, sought to deflect blame in explaining to passengers that Flight 486 to La Guardia would be leaving at 4:20 p.m. rather than 3:40 p.m.
He would, they said, have been better off making sure that the funding Wales gets from Europe is spent more effectively, "creating a dynamic trading relationship with our EU partners ... rather than going to Brussels full of empty words and tired rhetoric about Europe".
Fellow Dow Jones industrial average component Wal-Mart rose 1.1%, after the company said it will pay its next dividend Dec. 27, rather than Jan. 2 as planned.
People prefer to address computers by names, such as www.economist.com, rather than numbers (in this case 207.87.8.50, when translated into decimal digits).
Low-cost energy is leading to revival in manufacturing and chemicals industries, with multinationals choosing to invest in the U.S. rather than other countries with lower labour costs.
At 5:00 p.m. today you have 59 Democratic senators rather than 60.
Both scored victories as it was announced that David Beckham would return to the L.A. Galaxy for 2 more seasons rather than play abroad.
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She said most arrived in the U.S. through a refugee resettlement program rather than as asylum seekers.
The Democrats who now run congress have historically been friendlier to Japanese carmakers that invest in factories in the U.S. rather than export vehicles from overseas, because it means American factory jobs.
Ms. Rowling's agent, Neil Blair, said that he negotiated directly with Little, Brown in the U.K. for world English rights rather than offering the title for auction.
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The impact of switching from RPI to CPI is that APS pensioners received a rise in April this year of 3.1% rather than 4.6%.
Ed Grebeck, chief executive officer of Tempus Advisors and a veteran of the bond markets, said he thinks the markets are more concerned about the longer-term health of the U.S. economy, rather than the short-term fix of raising the debt ceiling.
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Firpta had led a number of investors to change their strategies to investing in real-estate debt in the U.S. rather than equity, said Ben Sanderson of Hermes Real Estate Investment Management Ltd.
Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
Our current tax code perversely encourages U.S. companies to reinvest their overseas profits overseas rather than repatriate them.
The Pew study found Asians three times as likely as immigrants from other parts of the world to get U.S. permanent residency on the basis of employment rather than family ties.
Most legitimate charities websites end in .org rather than .com.
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