Like Ghana, Nigeria has shown promise at youth level, winning U-17 World Cup titles in 1985, 1993 and 2007, and winning Olympic gold at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
Nintendo chose last year's E3 to unveil the Wii U to the world, wowing us with the notion of gaming on not just one screen but on two simultaneously.
The European elites argued that the countries belonging to the European Union constituted a larger economy than the U.S. and that EU exports to the rest of the world exceeded U.S. exports.
They've done a spectacular job for their clients and we continue--we're very excited about, one, we're excited about the region and two, we're excited to have a team of that quality doing real, on the ground research throughout China, which is, now, if you sort of look at the larger Chinese market, it's the second-largest market in the world, and there just aren't--there are many more world-class U.S. teams than there are world-class Chinese teams.
We manufacture parts in the U.S. and export them around the world, and U.S. developers create apps that we sell in over 100 countries.
China is leading the charge in the developing world, passing the U.S. last month to become the world's top country for Android and Apple iOS smartphones and tablets, according to Flurry Inc.
And also -- currency hit historical high, which all means the U.S. dollar is hitting historical lows and people around the world are selling U.S. dollar.
Bayer and its corporate predecessors stand accused of developing and testing a genetically modified strain of rice that contaminated the U.S. commercial rice supply, leading rice companies around the world to restrict U.S. rice imports and rice prices to drop.
The U.S. is the world's biggest cotton exporter, but U.S. and foreign supplies relative to consumption are getting the tightest they have been since the mid-1990s.
Actually, Europe's drifting off into its own self-contained world is an extraordinary achievement of the U.S.' post-World War II diplomacy.
But Ul-Haq did offer up some thoughts distinctly at odds with the U.S. world view.
All central banks around the world held U.S. Treasury bonds as their reserve asset.
In this changing world the U.S. will need to better align national ambitions with available resources.
But investors won't be entirely happy about a world without U.S. government debt.
As we found in a recent analysis, compared to the rest of the world, U.S. broadband speeds are very fast.
He is one of nine U.S. combatant commanders in the world and is currently the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific Rim.
As one set of observers view the world, U.S. stock and securities are not worth subjecting oneself to the rigors of American extra-territorialism.
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His current goal: entering the ultra-competitive world of U.S. Spanish-language radio.
Since 1991 White's international portfolios have returned an annualized 11.2%, compared with a 9.4% annual return for the Morgan Stanley Capital International World ex U.S. index.
With a median population age of 26.2 years, India has one of the youngest demographic profiles in the world (U.S. 36.9, Russia 38.7 and Japan 44.8).
Eleven years ago this Saturday, during the 1999 Women's World Cup, U.S. player Brandi Chastain left-footed a penalty kick past a Chinese goalkeeper to win the World Cup.
But in the multi-billion-dollar, high-stakes world of U.S. major-league sports -- and even at major U.S. colleges -- it would doubtless be seen as foolhardy to take a chance on using that name.
By telling U.S. taxpayers, and the world in general, that the U.S. government has no intention of ever balancing its budget or limiting its accumulation of unsustainable debt, then perhaps we can begin to have an honest discussion about our economic future.
Anyone Main Street investor with an E-Trade account thinking that it makes no sense that a fund holding low yielding securities can still clobber a fund holding higher yielding securities need only to consider the political demand around the world for U.S. debt.
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Antonucci, the commissioner of Women's Professional Soccer, is tirelessly pitching sponsors and television executives on the notion that the start-up league will not repeat the mistakes of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the ill-fated pro league that failed to capitalize on a U.S. World Cup title nearly a decade ago.
The new Cleantech industry has a firm footing in Michigan, and in fact the thought leaders in the world, the Cleantech Venture Network based just north of Ann Arbor, is the group holding conferences all over the world (U.S., China, Toronto, Germany, France) to create financial markets for this new industry.
We know the world is changing as evidenced by the continuous erosion of the U.S. share of world market capitalization.
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The challenge now is to put nostalgia and inertia aside and tailor its role to a profoundly changed world, with a democratic Germany, a U.S. heavily committed to world security, and a resurgent Russia.
Admiral Lyons was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet (the largest single military command in the world), senior U.S. military representative to the United Nations, and deputy chief of naval operations, where he was principal adviser on all Joint Chiefs of Staff matters.
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