• The candidate who should benefit from this is Mr Gephardt, who says angry things about foreign competition.

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  • Scotland's Parliament is to be responsible for most things except foreign policy, defence, immigration, social security and macroeconomics.

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  • "Speaking in terms of JGB investments, investors who need yield will ultimately extend the maturity of JGBs they are buying, and those who don't want to do that or can't do that will buy other things like foreign bonds or credit, and in some cases equity, " said Kenji Sakaguchi, chief investment officer at Prudential Investment Management Japan Co.

    WSJ: Japanese Government Bonds Soar

  • But what about things like the foreign service pay, an alternate F-35 jet engine?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity -- our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture.

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  • More recently, the appreciation of the Korean won has made things more expensive for foreign visitors, said Mr. Song.

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  • Many of the things we were able to teach the twins, whether it was cleaning their own spaces, reading, doing math and other things, were totally foreign to their older sisters.

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  • The foreign investment banks have two things that most domestic firms lack: access to big foreign institutional customers, which buy many of these financial instruments, and expertise in the techniques of modern finance.

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  • Outgoing US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is worried about the shape of things to come in US foreign policy.

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  • Politicians will not dismantle the single market, but there is a lot they can do to meddle: doling out state aids, encouraging mergers and alliances to create national or European "champions", and taking an aggressive stance on foreign imports through things like anti-dumping complaints.

    ECONOMIST: European politics

  • We had a whole bunch of things we had to do on foreign policy, too.

    WHITEHOUSE: Discussing the Economy in Des Moines

  • Yet the increasing foreign trade also provides things that are good for clusters.

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  • Things were not much better in foreign policy, something Obama might consider as he listens to proposals to intensify military operations in Afghanistan.

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  • Nafeh, 63, in late 2004 launched HedgeStreet, a vehicle for making tradable microbets on the prices of things like homes, gold, foreign currencies and oil.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "There are voices always from all sides who say that certain things are wrong, " says UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.

    CNN: Britain's war of words

  • "You had to be nice to a general director and do things like taking him on tours in foreign countries, " he recalls.

    FORBES: Man of Steel

  • And, indeed, that was how things appeared to be shaping up when Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar called for a vote last Tuesday.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Bush v. Kerry II

  • Before that time, it was basically clear that outside of wartime (when gold-standard conventions were often suspended), you could basically count on the dollar holding its value against major things like the consumer price level, foreign currencies, and commodities such as gold itself.

    FORBES: Inequality Is The Child Of Fiat Money

  • But things did not work out that way in foreign affairs, and other sorts of convergence may be coming to an end, too.

    ECONOMIST: From sea to shining sea

  • Yes, things are so desperate in Japan that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.

    FORBES: Upsetting the apple cart

  • "There are so many things that I talk about that are absolutely foreign to him, ... even eating a chicken shawarma, the best sandwich in the entire world, " she added.

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  • The film offers privileged views of writer-editor conferences under deadline pressures and page-one editorial meetings (which are rather stiff), but it ignores the many other things the paper does well, such as foreign, financial, and national-affairs reporting, and Rossi misses the underbrush, the secret life and murmured music of the place.

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  • To begin with, foreign policy is one of the few things where being president matters.

    ECONOMIST: Yippee!

  • The list of places he served and the things he did reads as a chronicle of American foreign policy.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remembering Richard Holbrooke

  • While the overall numbers went up rapidly, things didn't look so good for the foreign manufacturers when you break it down.

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  • We get yet another chance to determine if the Fed and its foreign counterparts are superhuman saviors of all things economic, or simply bunglers with very large pocketbooks that have staved off but not reduced the chances of a tremendous economic and market correction.

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  • CIC's chief executive, Lou Jiwei , told a conference in Hong Kong on January 20th that two things would improve his organisation: more freedom from foreign authorities to make investments, which would doubtless be fostered by his second wish, more freedom to manage itself.

    ECONOMIST: China's financial system

  • This is now on hold for at least another six months while, among other things, the government works out how to deal with foreign investors.

    ECONOMIST: Is the ruling party losing its way?

  • Yes, things have gotten so desperate in Japan lately that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.

    FORBES: Upsetting the apple cart

  • In other words, a foreign inflow, as well as financing good things such as public infrastructure and corporate investment, is also associated with debt defaults, inflation and currency crises.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

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