Earlier this week, he told his subscribers that he sold part of his gold position as the charts of the yellow metal in U.S. dollar and non-U.S. dollar terms were turning modestly bearish.
At an international meeting where he was being welcomed - sometimes on terms bordering on racist - the U.S. President did not seize the initiative.
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Obama also warned the Syrian government that using chemical weapons against opposition forces or allowing such weapons to be obtained by terrorists would be a "game-changer" in terms of U.S. involvement in the conflict.
Jordan -- although its percentage points in terms of approval rating for the U.S. increased recently in an international opinion poll -- many Jordanians disapprove of U.S. policy in the region.
With respect to our allies, it seems no less obvious that the effect of diminished American power -- particularly in terms that translate into a lessening of the credibility of U.S. security guarantees -- will only be to reduce U.S. influence with these nations.
In other words, if the Russians approve of our having a single, very limited ground-based anti-missile site in Alaska an outcome for which the Clinton-Gore team is apparently prepared to pay handsomely (in terms of eviscerating the U.S. nuclear deterrent, political concessions, IMF bail-outs, etc.) then national missile defenses will be okay with the New York Times and other devotees of the ABM Treaty.
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In other words, if the Russians approve of our having a single, very limited ground-based anti-missile site in Alaska -- an outcome for which the Clinton-Gore team is apparently prepared to pay handsomely (in terms of eviscerating the U.S. nuclear deterrent, political concessions, IMF bail-outs, etc.) -- then national missile defenses will be okay with the New York Times and other devotees of the ABM Treaty.
While Australia is the best part of 10-years behind the U.S. in terms of exploring for and developing its unconventional oil and gas potential it is a country which featured prominently in a 2011 analysis of world shale gas potential by the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
Gold just suffered its biggest two-day fall ever in U.S. dollar terms.
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Following a 75% peso devaluation (and a major debt default) in 2002, doing business in Argentina became much cheaper in dollar terms--a big draw for U.S. companies.
It also includes civil society partners, which is also unique in terms of a U.S. government-led process that makes civil society a partner of governments in developing these initiatives.
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Can you view what the U.S. has done in Iraq -- now having a reliable ally in the region -- as being a success in terms of U.S. foreign policy?
Was the President kept abreast of those meetings, and was there a sense that they in any way moved the needle forward in terms of creating progress with Pakistani-U.S. relations?
Should such a capacity be coupled with the existing Japanese ability to out-finance U.S. sales through far more generous terms, the United States could stand to lose a substantial share of the military aerospace and related markets.
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Those doubts will be reflected in a softening of targets, in an easing of terms that does not quite add up to a U-turn, but signals their doubts that the policy to save the eurozone is working.
Washington and Baghdad have been locked in negotiations on the terms of a long-term deal to keep U.S. troops in Iraq beyond the end of the year, when a U.N. mandate that gives the U.S. legal cover to stay in Iraq ends.
Today most of Al-Zubayi's former brigade is on friendly terms with U.S. forces in Iraq.
Pacific Andes also targeted the U.S. market, offering fast-food chains and wholesalers credit terms.
At the same time, the U.S. has much to offer Israel in terms of non-lethal technologies that can reduce civilian casualties.
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The growth of Wal-Mart U.S. segment has been positive and stable in terms of revenues and comparable store sales and is likely to continue this way.
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This is not too far from what the company enjoys in the U.S. Additionally, 145 million households mean that the addressable market size is substantially more than that in the U.S. but the limitations exist in terms of low pay-TV penetration currently.
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Glickman was a U.S. representative from Kansas for nine terms but lost a re-election bid in 1994.
Proponents argue that the agreement offers significant opportunities for the United States and that failure to abide by its terms, painstakingly negotiated, could drastically worsen U.S.-Japan defense relations.
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One of them is Apache (APA), one of the major independent natural gas and oil exploration and production companies in the U.S. and the fourth largest oil-and-gas company in terms of production.
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The U.K. is perhaps the most well-rounded of the bunch, in terms of the breadth of VC-funded companies.
We have appreciated the steps by the current U.S. administration in terms of the decisions in the area of anti-missile defense of the present administration, and this has led to progress.
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Over the same period Yellow Tail, though still the biggest-selling wine brand in the U.S., lost market share in dollar terms and was flat in volume.
The U.S.-based Muslim Public Affairs Council condemned the French attacks "in the strongest terms possible, " in a statement Wednesday.
Beijing's cutting-off of aid (per the terms of the accords) and a 1992 U.N. sanction against Khmer Rouge exports put a squeeze on the group's revenues.
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