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Consider the absurdity of a city in the middle of the world's biggest tropical forest having to ship in a large proportion of its fruit and vegetables.
If the negotiations in Moscow unravel, the potential consequences for the Middle East and the rest of the world could be grave.
That is roughly in the middle of the pack of the world's 45 developed and emerging markets, as measured in dollar terms.
Next to Britain, the U.S. has the largest number of Pakistani residents outside of the Middle East, part of a world-wide diaspora that represents the second-largest contributor to Pakistan's economy through the remittances they send back.
This came as a stark reminder of the dangers facing America (the world's largest oil consumer) and the instability in the Middle East (home of much of the world's oil reserves).
"I was incredibly proud that this piece of the Potteries exists in the middle of one of the most amazing cities in the world, but I suspect there are a lot of people in Stoke who don't know about it, " he said.
But some economists argue that Brazil is the beneficiary of a structural shift, in which the industrialisation of Asia and the rise of a new middle class in the developing world will keep commodity prices high.
With the conflicts and disorder of the Middle East consuming the attention of much of the civilized world, there is yet another battle raging on -- though few in the West are even slightly aware of its potential consequences or that it is even taking place.
But as the entrepreneur behind The 99, a comic book series of Muslim superheroes that come from not just the Middle East but every corner of the world, he is channeling his effusive energy more effectively.
The Greatest Generation had the can-do attitude and forged the Greatest infrastructure and middle class prosperity in the history of the world with top tax rates of 70% to 90%.
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"Though the path of peace is steep and has become steeper these last few weeks, in the long run it is the only path that offers the peoples of the Middle East hope for a normal life as part of the modern world, " Clinton said on Tuesday evening.
An organization that encourages creative leadership at every level is more likely to find success than failure, whether in producing a product or embarking on a journey to change the world, even the world of Middle Earth.
The great upthrust of the immigrant working class into the middle class after World War II, via the GI Bill, was stopped stone cold by the events of the autumn of 1973, when the October war in the Middle East led to the quadrupling of oil prices virtually overnight and the great inflation set in.
In the emerging markets of the world, the middle class is becoming more important economically as well as politically.
To build the foundation for these works, the Corps had to pour an 8-foot-thick concrete foundation underwater in the middle of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
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Other issues that were raised included the situation in the Middle East and the forthcoming meeting of the world's largest economies in London.
In 2008, we came together to reclaim the basic bargain that built this country -- the basic ideal of this country, the thing that created the largest middle class, the most prosperous nation in the history of the world.
The local time zone of the contacts are also listed so you know not to call them if they are in a different part of the world in the middle of the night.
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Thus, despite all of the political efforts, the impact of the tax side of the fiscal cliff negotiations for the middle class may be a world virtually indistinguishable from the pre-cliff world.
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For years, the international community has been attempting to curb nuclear proliferation in one of the most volatile regions of the world, the Middle East.
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So is the scale of the logistical challenge of building one of the world's biggest copper mines in the middle of the desert.
For generations, it was the great American working class, the great American middle class that made our economy the envy of the world.
As this process unfolds, the Chinese middle class will change the dynamics of the world we live in.
Unlike much of the rest of the world, the Middle East has witnessed the use of such weapons in recent decades -- by Egypt against Yemen in 1963, as well as by Iraq against Iran and its own Kurds in the 1980s, Martin said.
But fans should be wary and "not see dollar signs" at the first sniff of interest from Middle East buyers, says James M Dorsey, author of a blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer.
There are about 300, 000 ethnic Arabs in the Detroit metropolitan area, the biggest concentration of Arabs anywhere in the world outside the Middle East.
However, this much is clear: the Chinese middle class has already changed the dynamics of the world we live in.
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Right now in the all-important oil world of the Middle East and North Africa, short-term supply, future prices, ownership and preferred trading partners are all up in the air.
And as a revolution races through the streets of the Middle East and North Africa, the entire world has a stake in the aspirations of a generation that longs to determine its own destiny.
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