He may be hoping that commercial banks will lobby the West to give Serbia the money to pay them back.

ECONOMIST: Bosnia

Guests arriving by car or cab check in at a lower motor lobby, where elevators can whisk them to their upper-floor rooms, bypassing its glitzy glass and marble main lobby fronting West Georgia Street, a major downtown thoroughfare.

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This is a formidable lobby in the Pacific north-west, which has been defined to a remarkable degree by 16 huge dams that blockade the Columbia river and its principal tributary, the Snake.

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In the lobby of AIC's headquarters in Burlington, west of Toronto, a pair of parrots from the Solomon Islands greet visitors with squawks of "Buy!"

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Enter through a concrete lobby in an anonymous building fronted by corrugated sheeting a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean in West L.A. and suddenly you're in a hangar-esque space where some 200 acolytes toil at desks and tables constructed from the same cheap red plywood used for packing cases.

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