Brazil, geographically, is on the other side of the world and is clearly the more Western of the group.
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Total was the last major Western energy group to have seriously considered investing in the country's huge gas reserves.
For all the frantic restructuring the group remains strikingly diversified by Western standards: 98 operating companies, 28 of them listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, in a bewildering range of industries.
The answer to this quandary is found in the second group of SCF advocates: the Western facilitators.
But prospects for launching talks at an international conference in Geneva began fading after the main Western-backed opposition group said it wouldn't attend as long as Hezbollah fights in Syria and the situation in Qusair remains dire.
Avnet said the weak profit forecast reflects the lower revenue in the technology solutions group, lower profits margins in the Western regions in electronics marketing due to a weaker sales environment, and a greater-than-expected mix shift in electronics market, with better sales in the lower-margin Asia region more offset by weaker sales in higher-margin Western regions.
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Mr Ferhelst was 14 when he helped to form the Bonteheuwel Military Wing (BMW), an underground youth group which was active in the Western Cape in the 1980s.
The restructuring, done under the auspices of the Paris Club, an informal group of western creditor countries, came earlier than expected and just in time for the first round of Iraqi elections expected in January.
Since then he has been calling on the Group of Friends of Western Sahara, consisting of Britain, France, Russia, Spain and the United States, to stop the stumbling talks between Morocco and Polisario from breaking down altogether.
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After meeting with the countries of Group I (Western European and North American States) Group II (Eastern European States), Group IV a (African States), as well as Latin American and Caribbean countries (GRULAC), Irina Bokova met with members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) during a working lunch.
The people of Timbuktu had barricaded themselves in their homes after a group of Islamists infiltrated a western neighbourhood of the city overnight, our correspondent says.
When he died Thursday, Sisnett was the oldest man in the Western Hemisphere, whose age had been validated, according to the Gerontology Research Group.
Russian diplomats have made scant efforts to meet with Syrian opposition figures and Moscow seems to accept Damascus' portrayal of the opposition as a group of armed criminal gangs, according to a Western official familiar with the Russian thinking.
His continuing influence was also apparent in his ongoing membership of the Bilderberg group, an elite collection of Western thinkers and powerbrokers who meet annually to discuss global issues.
"We have not taken a decision yet, " Naser Ziberi, head of the PDP parliamentary group, told reporters after six hours of talks between party officials in the western city of Tetovo.
Richard Cornett is the communications director for the Western Plant Health Association, a nonprofit agricultural trade group based in Sacramento, Calif.
The ability to recruit a large new group of Western lenders (e.g. securities firms, pension funds, insurance companies, corporations and even individuals).
ASEAN, the group's friendly relations with the western democracies would be soured.
Billionaire Anil Agarwal, who owns 54% of U.K.-listed Vedanta and serves as its chairman, pipped Lakshmi Mittal and Kumar Mangalam Birla of the Aditya Birla Group to acquire Sesa Goa, which was founded in 1954 and is based in the western Indian state of Goa.
The group, from the town of Tahrouna in western Libya, began the occupation in protest against the disappearance of one of their commanders.
The Western Bushveld Joint Venture is a joint venture where Platinum Group Metals has a 74% interest and Wesizwe Platinum owns the remaining 26%.
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"The manufacturing industry is running out of low-cost sourcing destinations, and it's time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor, " says Auret van Heerden, chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group funded partly by Western companies.
But he cautioned that an attack in France would be a completely new territory for the group, which had no known track record of attracting Western operatives.
The Assembly elected Stephen Hall, Head of the UK delegation to the IOC, to the joint position of Chair of Group 1 (broadly consisting of Western Europe, USA and Canada) and vice-chair of IOC.
Some of the group studied in Europe, and their work, to the Western eye, can at first appear derivative.
And in recent weeks, Kenya has accused Al-Shabaab of kidnapping Western tourists and aid workers in northern Kenya, allegations which the Somali group denies.
Some members of the group studied in Europe, and their work, to the Western eye, can seem derivative of European cubists and other modern masters.
Applying an electric current and getting a muscle to jump is easy. (Alessandro Volta jolted a frog's legs 218 years ago.) Peckham is harvesting the body's own electrical signals to control muscles that have been cut off from the nervous system, a process called functional electrical stimulation, or FES. Peckham runs a group called the Cleveland FES Center, a collaboration among Case Western Reserve and two Cleveland hospitals.
According to the Boston Consulting Group, if you want to sell refrigerators or cars in western Europe, it can be cheaper to make them in Poland than in China.
No one claimed responsibility but Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a sect which has condemned the use of Western medicine, has been blamed for carrying out a spate of assaults on security forces in the city in recent weeks.
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