If a benign geopolitical environment was the bedrock of the 19th-century empire, it was the catalogue of geopolitical disasters of 1940-42 that demolished the British world-system once and for all.
The British world-system then held together until the second world war.
Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs.
That is the site in Moorestown, New Jersey where the Navy tests the radars for its Aegis combat system, the most capable air- and missile-defense system in the world.
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We could create an updated version of the world gold standard system of the pre-1914 era.
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At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
Singapore has, arguably, the most market-oriented system in the world.
We will eventually see a resulting decline in the quality of what has been the best higher-education system in the world, as the people capable of designing a college curriculum and staffing it lose authority over the areas of their professional expertise.
The traditional dollar-based world currency system is now close to breaking point and the chances that it will come crashing down by 2016 are probably higher than fifty-fifty.
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Even in highly disciplined Singapore, home of the most sophisticated road-pricing system in the world, citizens have had to be cajoled into accepting the latest flexible charging system with reductions on other motor taxes.
Aegis began as a sea-based defense against hostile aircraft, but over three decades has evolved to become the most versatile missile-defense system in the world, due in no small part to the fact that destroyers and cruisers hosting the system can get wherever they need to be quickly.
It continues to be relevant because of preloads on the most-used operating system in the world.
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Apple may still have the best-selling smartphone in the world, but the many others powered by rival Google's Android operating system -- and especially those made by Samsung -- far exceed the iPhone.
Android has leapfrogged Apple's iOS mobile operating system to become the most widely used smartphone operating system world-wide.
Whether or not Gordon Brown's Treasury had an excessively optimistic view of the budget deficit, he certainly severely underestimated the degree to which Her Majesty's Government would be on the hook if Britain's world-beating financial system got into trouble: The financial sector bailouts account for eight percentage points of the overshoot in our debt.
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The most perfect monetary system humans have yet created was the world gold standard system of the late 19th century, roughly 1870-1914.
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The U.S. will remain the strongest driver but will need to find markets for selling more as well as buying. (Investment flows, and the strength of the dollar, will figure in this.) Another key factor will be China--how fast it integrates into the world trading system as a nation, and as 30-odd provinces and zones.
More than a few observers have dubbed this meeting Bretton Woods II, a reference to the 1944 international conference that established the post-World War II monetary system.
Despite the success of the euro, which has been worth more than the dollar ever since the U.S. economy busted in 2001, there's no real plan afoot to put the world on a one-currency system.
In part to bring the United States into closer alignment with the rest of the world, the AIA eliminates the first-to-invent system for U.S. patent applications with an effective filing date of March 16, 2013 or later.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Nearly 300 people have died from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe that is compounded by the country's collapsing health-care system, according to the World Health Organization.
At number three in the world, Murray is already the highest-ranked Briton since the system was introduced in 1973, but this latest move breaks up the dominance that Federer and Nadal have enjoyed.
And yet, they have so mismanaged their affairs - with such devastating potential consequences for the global economy and its financial system - that the rest of the world believes it has no choice but to come to its rescue.
Doing something effective and substantive, such as creating a modernized version of the gold-based Bretton Woods international monetary system--which lasted from the end of the Second World War until the early 1970s and gave us an era of great, noninflationary economic growth--will not even be broached.
Samsung is paving the way, introducing the world's first SMART Compact-System-Cameras for professional standard images that are worth sharing.
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And one example it used to point to as a source of pride was the world-beating high-speed train system.
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Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, said she was very encouraged that the government was using these visits to promote the UK's world-leading university system.
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