And it helped establish business schools in Singapore, India and Thailand and also runs student exchange programs with Insead (ranked number two in non-U.S. one-year foreign programs).
Among the first to situate his home and studio here was Bae Bien-U, one of Asia's most highly regarded photographers and famous for his black-and-white images of gnarled pines.
In fact, the XO's isolation from the Web might have been a reason why consumers didn't snap them up during the buy-one-donate-one promotion that allowed U.S. consumers to purchase XOs between November and January--the promotion ended Jan. 1.
From all of this, it is clear that the U-6 measure is a lot more reliable than the U-3, the one that is most widely reported.
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According to a growing body of research, somewhere between one-third and one-half of the value of U.S. imports from China is actually Chinese value-added.
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While investing in a global company based in Japan could be fundamentally like investing in a big U.S.-based competitor, only one of those stocks has currency exposure to a U.S.-based investor.
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"Bush has never had to pull off a U-turn like the one he is contemplating now, " Duffy says.
U-Haul staff identified one of the Afghans to the FBI as Naiz Khan, the former counterterrorism official said.
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In February 2005, forty-one-year-old U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Jack Lewis witnessed the aftermath of a late-night crash involving a nineteen-ton Stryker armored vehicle (call sign "Rattlesnake Six-Seven") and a small car.
Even before they did so, forty-one U.S. Senators wrote President Obama warning him that they would not support ratification of a follow-on START accord unless his budget explicitly funded a modernization program for our deterrent forces.
In 2000 only a single-digit percentage of kids had a wireless phone, but that changed by 2003, when some estimate one-third of U.S. kids aged 11 to 17 had one (see: " Wee Wireless Warriors").
The international community in the U.S. - one of the things we've seen is the way that the city is flooded is there is some form of machinery, some form of equipment that they could bring in, similar to like FEMA, to help get a lot of the water out of the town and back into the river.
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.
On the more parochial domestic front, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico provides (well, it did last year) one-third of total U.S. crude production and nearly all of that (80 percent) comes from deep water fields.
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History is also against Dustin Johnson -- no-one has ever won a U.S. Open after winning the week before -- but then again he's a man rested (after injury), on form after his Memphis triumph and with the length to leave himself more lofted clubs to those slick, well-guarded putting surfaces.
For example, the iShare short-term fund mirrors the Lehman one- to three-year U.S. Treasury Index.
Ocwen has long emphasized its cost advantages and low operating expenses as a competitive advantage, with at least three-quarters of its 5, 000 employees based in India and Uruguay, where it says its per-employee costs are one-eighth of those of a U.S. worker.
Partner (nasdaq: PTNR - news - people ) itself trades in the U.S., and has about one-third of the Israeli mobile market.
Once the majority of domestic cars become plug-in hybrids, we could displace most urban gasoline use, or nearly one-half of current U.S. oil imports.
The U.S. consumes one-fifth of global copper production, primarily in wiring and plumbing.
In one significant respect U-233 is better than uranium-235 and plutonium-239, because of its higher neutron yield per neutron absorbed.
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The public may be vaguely aware of one other one, the U-6.
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Forty-one percent of U.S. adults use the majority of their vacation budgets on obligation trips such as weddings, holiday gatherings and reunions, according to a July Hotwire survey.
The Westchester County suburbs of New York City are home to the fastest road in the eastern U.S.--and one of only two East Coast roads that made the list.
Mr. El Baradei made a public fuss last week about one British-U.S. claim that turns out to have been false, but which was in any case peripheral to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
So I was surprised by the news that the extraordinary playwright, journalist and one-time U.S. Congresswoman left a bequest as part of her estate to support women pursuing careers in science, mathematics and engineering.
There may be another economic reason for more Americans to get vaccinated -- one in three U.S. workers get no paid time off when they are sick, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
However, on two specific and contentious issues, we have consistently found Americans to agree in the range of two-to-one that the U.S. should participate in the International Criminal Court and in the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- One of two U.S. officials who made a rare trip to Myanmar said Thursday that the United States was willing to improve relations if that nation's ruling military junta takes tangible steps towards democracy.
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Researchers at the Kauffman Foundation released a study late last year showing that from 2006 to 2012, one in four engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. had at least one foreign-born founder in Silicon Valley it was almost half of new companies.
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