While the developed world, led by the U.S., staggered through a global credit crunch, China's gross domestic product grew 11% in the first quarter, and the Gulf Cooperation Council--the oil-rich federation of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates--averaged nearly 7% growth in the same period.
The president said he'd been able to achieve the first two simultaneously, with cooperation and support from the nation's labor movement.
But the first fruit of the two companies' cooperation has emerged, the Nokia 6555.
Digital data of the following five proclaimed masterpieces was acquired in the first phase of the project period in cooperation with NHK, Japan.
Tian's optimism was shared at the first International Skiing Industry Cooperation Forum, held in Harbin, a skiing hub, in December.
The one-day visit is the first to Iraq by a Gulf Cooperation Council foreign minister since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Iraqi government said.
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This year the United States is projected to run a budget deficit that amounts to 11.9% of GDP in 2010, the highest in the first world, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (although the Congressional Budget Office puts the deficit-to-GDP ratio at 8.9%).
He believed that horn-tooting risked alienating the very people whose cooperation had made the accomplishment possible in the first place.
This is not the first time the government has gone out of its way to encourage cooperation and praise robust compliance programs.
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This year, the United States is hosting Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual meetings for the first time since 1993.
On the upside, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development separately raised its first-quarter GDP forecast for countries in the Group of Seven industrialized nations to 1.9% from 1.5%.
The first feature is the aforementioned focusing of Boeing internal culture on teamwork and cooperation, values that seemed to be on the back burner for a while after the company bought several big military competitors between 1996 and 2000.
To prevent West Germany from formally joining NATO, the post-Stalin Soviet leadership reiterated this offer in 1954 and first proposed the convening of a Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
The participants discussed the results of the cooperation of the National Commissions and UNESCO Moscow Office during the first year of the current biennium.
Such behavior by politicians and such a public mood stand in stark contrast to Russia's temper earlier in this decade, when the first postcommunist government, headed by the same Mr. Yeltsin, vowed to pursue cooperation with the West and made good on this pledge by adopting political and economic reforms designed to transform Russia into a Western country.
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The first one (from 1999 to 2003) saw quick economic growth and cooperation between businesses and the authorities.
Since the Greek crisis first emerged, analysts pointed out, European leaders have already increased cooperation, such as the European Financial Stability Facility and sovereign-bond purchases by the European Central Bank.
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Now, that cooperation was on display yesterday at the first G20 summit in an Asia Pacific nation.
It was the first time that production has been shut down at the complex, the only remaining product of economic cooperation between the two countries that began about a decade ago when relations were much warmer.
As a first step, the Study Group recommends that ICSU actively promote cooperation between traditional knowledge and science at the United Nations World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg (South Africa) in August 2002.
And we could not have done this without extraordinary cooperation first from President Medvedev when it came to the START treaty, and then from my colleagues who were here today when it came to this Nuclear Security Summit.
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"I wish him well in his time in the Papacy and his first message as Pope - urging greater bonds of understanding and cooperation among peoples and nations - is one that should resonate around the globe, " said the SNP leader.
In this context, the development of the Holistic Early Childhood Development Index (HECDI) was first proposed at the World Conference on ECCE organized by UNESCO in September 2010 in cooperation with the Russian Federation.
Sometimes, these private initiatives will work in cooperation with the government organizations that funded and conducted space travel in the first three eras, and sometimes they will operate independently of government involvement and support.
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Mr. Ahmadinejad, in his first foreign trip since the vote, arrived in Yekaterinburg, Russia, for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit of emerging nations.
"China will first get to know the Arctic better, and then it is able to join effectively international cooperation, " Mr. Gao said, according to Xinhua.
Oddly enough, the first to propose what Mundell's after gave very little thought to its prospects for diplomacy and international cooperation.
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