Such scenes are the front lines of U.S.-based web consulting companies, thrust into global expansion by design--or by circumstances they couldn't control.
The network of high-voltage "transmission" lines in the U.S. is rapidly aging and no longer can adequately support the country's growing demand for electricity.
When he took over six of the U.K.'s busiest government-run rail lines in 1997, Branson did little more than apply the Virgin logo to the cars, which badly needed upgrading.
He decreed that no U.S. funding can go to new stem-cell lines ("That cluster of cells is the same way you and I started our lives").
Sanctions would disrupt a major portion of the U.S.-Chinese shipping market controlled by Cosco, whose business lines include port terminals and warehousing, insurance, real estate and hotel management.
U.S. air travel is a miserable experience--bad service, long lines, grumpy flight crews and groping security agents.
While Democrats and Republicans fritter away the time politically posturing and holding tight to their party lines, the U.S. comes closer to losing its coveted Triple-A credit rating.
It has tour bus lines in the southeastern U.S. and 16 Park 'N Fly off-airport parking lots with 30, 000 spaces.
The sheriff's office said deputies responded to the two-car crash on U.S. Highway 49 South near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines on Tuesday about 8 a.m.
In a four-decade transit career in the U.S. and Canada, Mr. Prendergast has run commuter railroads and rapid-transit lines, including some of the systems in the MTA's own portfolio.
Talk about rank, crass hypocrisy: cable-tv companies in the U.S. are aggressively offering consumers telephone service over their cable lines, and they do so without being burdened by many of the regulatory obstacles with which traditional carriers, such as SBC and Verizon, must cope.
Along similar lines, the 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer is 91.9 percent in the U.S. vs. 51.1 percent in UK, 66 percent in Sweden, 63 percent in Norway, 38.4 percent in Denmark, and 85.1 percent in Canada.
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