Of the well-known U.S. cases, which represent a diversity of backgrounds, it's next to impossible to say.
Thornley says it all became possible after well-known U.S. producer Mace Neufeld saw the film by chance.
Silver has received a lot of good press recently because well-known U.S. investor Warren Buffett bought all the supply he could lay his hands on.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Samsonite remains the best-known U.S. luggage brand, but that's little comfort in a sector as commoditized as air transport itself--and with prices coming down quickly as more production (including Samsonite's own) has been sent to China.
The facility -- officially known as the U.S. Army Confinement Facility-Europe -- is the largest U.S. military confinement center outside the United States.
Pickle brine's properties are well-known in U.S. college football circles, where some players guzzle it like Gatorade in the belief it reduces muscle cramping.
It expanded over the years, using the Bosley hair-restoration brand name that's now well-known thanks to U.S. infomercials.
He's had a cult following and healthy overseas readership but was little-known in the U.S. until "Savages" raised his profile a bit in 2010.
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Unlike the main Grammy Awards, the Latin Grammy Academy nominates great music from around the world that may not be well-known in the U.S. Take, for instance, Diego Amador: a young pianist who's heir to a major flamenco dynasty.
He is said to be a dual-citizen of the U.S. and Israel, and is a well-known poker champ.
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But Indian outsourcing giants sponsor more than half the 65, 000 skilled-worker permits, known as H1-B visas, that the U.S. issues annually to workers with at least a bachelor's degree.
The world has plenty of potash 610 years worth, which ensures centuries more of fertilizer-making, and 590 years of known iron-ore reserves, according to U.S. Geological Survey estimates.
The oft-raised question--and it's a big one for the U.S.--is whether millennials (also known as "The Everybody Gets A Trophy" generation) have been so coddled, so inoculated against insults and injury, that they are now too, well, soft to achieve entrepreneurial success.
The U.S.-made monitors, known as Zephyr BioHarnesses, will record the miners' vital signs, pulse, heart rhythm and breathing.
It is a little-known fact that the U.S. Federal government has used printing-press finance whenever it ran large deficits.
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Market insiders also question whether an eventual U.K. downgrade would dent the relative safe-haven allure of U.K. government bonds, also known as gilts.
Kempton, a wiry, 59-year-old renewable energy professor at the University of Delaware with round, wire-rimmed glasses, is the U.S.' foremost proponent of what's known as vehicle-to-grid technology.
It is one of the most well-known accessories brands in the U.S. and also maintains a presence in select international markets.
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DeNA says the company is part of its strategy to become a well-known game developer in the U.S., so it must see something in the company beyond a one-hit wonder.
The hawk-eyed engineers work for Bombardier Transportation, the train-building arm of Montreal's Bombardier--perhaps better known in the U.S. for the other half of its business: its regional and business jets.
Many Americans have encountered a U.S.-based offshoot of the FMLN known as the Mara Salvatrucha gang, or MS-13.
As I mentioned previously, Krueger is most well-known for a study he did with U.C.
Is the United States changing its policy towards Myanmar, considering relaxing your -- U.S. sanctions on the country also known as Burma?
Now son Edward (known as Joe) is chief executive of U-Haul's owner, Reno, Nev.
Refreshingly, the book expands its focus beyond the U.S. and U.K., giving similar weight to such lesser-known art markets as Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Israel.
Other known sovereigns in U.S. commercial real-estate lending include Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, and the Government of Singapore Investment Corp.
Starting on page 51, the Forbes Global 800 ranking of the world's largest publicly traded companies outside America is a reminder that the U.S. has no monopoly on big, well-known companies.
Ewert, a business consultant who once worked for the Luxembourg stock exchange, worked with Glock for 15 years as Glock's little-known gun became the sidearm of choice for U.S. law enforcement.
But a lawsuit filed last month in a U.S. District Court in Tennessee by two little-known pension funds argues not enough of that extra money is making it back into the hands of shareholders.
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