• Like the Neanderthals, the newcomers had been busy, too, developing advanced tools and weapons, better navigational skills, trade, complex language, art and other forms of symbolic thinking.

    WSJ: Neanderthals: Why Us and Not Them?

  • Pankaj Ghemawat of IESE, a business school, calculates that two countries which share a common language trade 42% more with each other than two otherwise identical countries that lack that bond.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • Obviously our Trade Representative testified on the House side today, saying that the administration would soon send up the language around the South Korea free trade agreement and intensify our engagement to address both Colombia and Panama in hopes that those negotiations could be concluded this year and agreements could then be sent to Congress thereafter.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • This is the beauty of living in a country that speaks the language of global finance and trade.

    FORBES: Top China University's Scrap English

  • On the other hand, borrowed language is sometimes a fair trade-off for clarity.

    NPR: More Recommendations

  • Ubuntu has also entered the language of development and fair trade - with campaigners using the word in aid projects for Africa in ways that suggest this will be an African solution for African problems.

    BBC: Bill Clinton, Labour conference

  • The language we use to describe illicit trade and to frame our efforts to contain it betrays the enduring power of this illusion.

    NPR: Tracking the World's Black Market: 'Illicit'

  • There may be very good reasons why they do only so compete of course: travel, communications, language, legal restrictions, capital or trade controls all come to mind.

    FORBES: Tiger Woods' $100 Million Winnings: Or Globalisation And Rising Inequality

  • Trade balances are a rich source of over-emotional language used by economic writers.

    ECONOMIST: Hold your tongue

  • The only contact with the foreign Trailmen is through trade conducted once a year in silence and by sign language, since the isolated tribes are thought to have no common language.

    NPR: From New York State: Science, Fiction and Bar Yarns

  • While the first minister was on a mission to China to promote trade and cultural links, that country's consul general highlighted the importance of foreign language assistants in acting as a "bridge of cultural exchanges".

    BBC: Consuls in school foreign languages plea

  • Even now, Sheffield University's Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, home of the three editors of this dictionary, is recording a newly dying trade, mining.

    ECONOMIST: Johnson: The words we have lost | The

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