Will an American recession drag the rest of the world down with it?
In sum, although North Korea is taking the world down a familiar path, key officials need to ask anew whether the familiar path is still the best one.
It wandered through the sky naked, corroded, and gray, more and more alien to the world down here, a hangover from a way of being that was now outdated.
In one of its many attempts to make the world more accessible and interconnected, the Internet giant sends cars out with cameras mounted on their hoods in order to photograph and map the world down to the street level.
You might think that a guy with a well-established penchant for blurting out things that brought the world down on his head would want to maintain minimum safe distance from a medium that at times seems to exist primarily to lull smart people into committing public acts of stupidity.
It may also, of course, have something to do with the declining readership of his tabloid papers, which are suffering the same fate as most newspapers worldwide: The Sun down from 3.5 million copies sold in 2000 to around 2.8 million copies today, and the News of the World down from more than 4 million in 2000 to 2.6 million just before its closure.
Yet, with the Dow Jones trading near its record high, shares in the former largest publicly traded company in the world are down in the gutter.
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As far as America's European allies are concerned, the idea that Iraq might be the first of a series of wars, in which America gallivants around the world knocking down unfavoured regimes such as Syria's is not supposed to be part of the plan at all.
The situation was different with short-term bonds, as central banks around the world pushed down overnight lending rates.
The 168-year-old News of the World shut down on Sunday after numerous accusations of phone hacking.
Nobody knows where this leads, except that the world slows down for a while.
Sales to military commissaries in the U.S. and at bases around the world were down 1.8% last year.
As I have been pointing out for a long time, countries around the world are down to no good choices.
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When the world slows down, demand falls.
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The News of the World was closed down by its publisher News International in 2011 following the outrage over cases of phone hacking.
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Now if you have the engine of the whole world slowing down and you have continued problems in Europe, and you have the first year of the Presidential cycle, which will likely to cool down the U.S., and you have this miserable fiscal cliff problem.
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Brands can have a target audience, but the fences of the world have been torn down letting the stream of information flow freely.
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Far from promoting Continental prosperity, does this institution now constitute the principal reason the world is still bogged down in the longest recession in half a century?
Investors concerned about the slow-down in the world economy may want to stay away from cyclical stocks like retailers that do not perform well in such an environment.
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Former world number one Jelena Jankovic has slipped down the world rankings this year and she too has yet to win a major, while 13th-seed Ana Ivanovic has not shown anything like the form that saw her win last year's French Open.
But the connection from Hoboken down to the World Trade Center tunnels is still severed, as the railroad awaits delivery of a replacement track switch.
Fifteen generations of Americans, our fellow Americans, many of whom are reposing in military cemeteries throughout the world are looking down on and judging what you do today.
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Shale-gas discoveries elsewhere in the world are dragging down the price of gas, and the oil price is unlikely to rise as fast in the future as it has in the past.
Tintin's official profession may be that of a reporter, but he is just as much an explorer and archaeologist, dashing around the world to chase down ancient artifacts in addition to nefarious villains and a good story.
Global oil demand fell by 2 million barrels a day in the depths of the financial crisis, he said, while today, demand in the industrialized world is down only slightly and emerging markets are continuing to grow.
So there are -- and he has taken enormous steps towards overcoming a lot of those challenges, principally the economic ones, but also rebalancing our foreign policy and reestablishing American leadership around the world and drawing down our troops in Iraq -- 100, 000 American troops have been drawn down from Iraq -- and getting a policy towards Afghanistan that can achieve our goals there.
But it does not mean giving up the chance to succeed in the business world, or bow down to the man who has chosen his career over anything else.
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Today's headlines have rightly focused on the starkness of David Cameron's message - his warning that the world could soon be staring down the barrel if eurozone governments don't tackle their debt and their lack of competitiveness.
The way it is less risky than people think is that it is always in our power to get tens of millions of people from all over the world to help us pay down the debt for us, and to do so gladly.
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