Third seed Williams had a free run w hen World No.1 Victoria Azarenka pulled out of their semifinal rather than risk a toe injury ahead of Melbourne, while second-ranked Sharapova also withdrew before the start of the tournament with a collarbone injury.
Finally, we reach near present-day where on President George W. Bush's watch the world saw the third great oil price spike.
To this day, the Confessor's shrine in the Abbey attracts worshippers from round the world, including President George W. Bush who prayed there in 2003.
W. Bush will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in May.
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Obama and his media flacks would have us believe that by speaking of American values and by distinguishing friend from foe, former president George W. Bush raised the hackles of the world against America.
Since then Merkel, a scientist turned politician, has been impressing world leaders from Tony Blair to George W. Bush.
The world can only hope that when George W. Bush visits this month he will focus those Japanese minds.
Despite her short time in office, Merkel has been dazzling world leaders, including Tony Blair and George W. Bush.
This new policy deeply undermines the Obama administration's stated commitment to civil rights, equality before the law, and a much-needed effort to rebuild U.S.-Muslim world relations since the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: I think it's in the world's interest that China grow open market economy.
After serving as President of the World Bank, Jim was asked by President George W. Bush to be the Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement for the Middle East.
In 2004, led by then president George W. Bush, the US cast a giant shadow throughout the world.
There is a row of big heads of world leaders from about a decade ago, including George W. Bush, Tony Blair and Kofi Annan.
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"We understand full well that the free flow of capital is a pillar of our leadership and competitiveness in the world, " says the Casey Institute's Roger W. Robinson, a former Reagan National Security Council senior director of international economic affairs who is widely credited as being behind the global transparency and disclosure initiative.
Dr. William W. Fox, Jr. is currently Vice President of Fisheries at World Wildlife Fund, a non-profit charity dedicated to global conservation through science-based solutions.
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This doesn't mean the United States will make the world safer by adopting the recklessness of the first term of George W. Bush's administration.
The winning trio want to use a third-generation technology called W-CDMA "because it will be the standard for 80% of the world market, " says Lee Jung Sik, vice president for LG's bidding unit.
Prescott Bush, W.'s grand-daddy, made a fortune in the oak-panelled world of Brown Brothers Harriman in New York before becoming a senator from Connecticut.
Dubai World still owns properties in New York, including 450 Lexington Avenue, The W Hotel Union Square, The Mandarin Oriental Hotel and the Knickerbocker on Times Square.
The G8 - Group of Eight - is made up of the world's leading industrialised nations and Russia some of the world's most powerful figures, including U.S. President George W. Bush, will attend the summit.
Carter and Jay W. Lorsch: " Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World", Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
Remember when President George W. Bush declared, "the U.S. has no more important relationship in the world" than the one with Mexico?
Japan, he predicts, will double-dip into a W. In fact, by Garner's calculations, China has likely already surpassed Japan to become the world's second-largest economy.
W. Bush announced the start of the first Gulf war from the Oval Office, telling Americans and the world that he was the commander in chief just by setting the scene in the Oval Office.
Company founder Paul W. Klipsch started this legacy in 1946, and it continues today with sheer commitment to innovation and delivering the world's most powerful, detailed and emotional sound reproduction.
George W. Bush has now gone where his predecessors declined to go, for one simple reason: Today's world bears no resemblance to that of 1972, when the ABM Treaty was signed.
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