Total was the last major Western energy group to have seriously considered investing in the country's huge gas reserves.
After meeting with the countries of Group I (Western European and North American States) Group II (Eastern European States), Group IV a (African States), as well as Latin American and Caribbean countries (GRULAC), Irina Bokova met with members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) during a working lunch.
Brazil, geographically, is on the other side of the world and is clearly the more Western of the group.
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Western Digital, Reinsurance Group of America and Tupperware Brands are a few stocks currently in my Neff-based portfolio.
In addition, Norges Bank filed proxy access proposals at Charles Schwab, CME Group, Western Union and Wells Fargo.
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The ability to recruit a large new group of Western lenders (e.g. securities firms, pension funds, insurance companies, corporations and even individuals).
The restructuring, done under the auspices of the Paris Club, an informal group of western creditor countries, came earlier than expected and just in time for the first round of Iraqi elections expected in January.
But prospects for launching talks at an international conference in Geneva began fading after the main Western-backed opposition group said it wouldn't attend as long as Hezbollah fights in Syria and the situation in Qusair remains dire.
In December 1998, a group of 16 western tourists, mostly British, was seized at gunpoint on a remote desert road in southern Yemen and taken hostage by fanatical, machine-gun-wielding militants.
"There's no question that once farmworkers get a green card, many will apply for other jobs and leave agriculture, " said Tom Nassif, president of Western Growers, an industry group that represents California and Arizona growers.
They formed a Western-style political lobbying group.
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Since then he has been calling on the Group of Friends of Western Sahara, consisting of Britain, France, Russia, Spain and the United States, to stop the stumbling talks between Morocco and Polisario from breaking down altogether.
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"The manufacturing industry is running out of low-cost sourcing destinations, and it's time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor, " says Auret van Heerden, chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group funded partly by Western companies.
This is a group of Republican lawmakers from Western states interested in energy legislation and other issues that affect Western states.
The people of Timbuktu had barricaded themselves in their homes after a group of Islamists infiltrated a western neighbourhood of the city overnight, our correspondent says.
For all the frantic restructuring the group remains strikingly diversified by Western standards: 98 operating companies, 28 of them listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, in a bewildering range of industries.
Controversy over taxes has sharpened in recent months: Earlier this year, Afghanistan detained several Western employees of Netherlands-based Supreme Group, a top supplier to the U.S. military, amid negotiations over the company's tax bill.
The answer to this quandary is found in the second group of SCF advocates: the Western facilitators.
All of a sudden, Western media decided that this - that that group was a little bit above the tribe, and therefore, they couldn't be ethnic.
Mr Ferhelst was 14 when he helped to form the Bonteheuwel Military Wing (BMW), an underground youth group which was active in the Western Cape in the 1980s.
His continuing influence was also apparent in his ongoing membership of the Bilderberg group, an elite collection of Western thinkers and powerbrokers who meet annually to discuss global issues.
The Assembly elected Stephen Hall, Head of the UK delegation to the IOC, to the joint position of Chair of Group 1 (broadly consisting of Western Europe, USA and Canada) and vice-chair of IOC.
Richard Cornett is the communications director for the Western Plant Health Association, a nonprofit agricultural trade group based in Sacramento, Calif.
ASEAN, the group's friendly relations with the western democracies would be soured.
Avnet said the weak profit forecast reflects the lower revenue in the technology solutions group, lower profits margins in the Western regions in electronics marketing due to a weaker sales environment, and a greater-than-expected mix shift in electronics market, with better sales in the lower-margin Asia region more offset by weaker sales in higher-margin Western regions.
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The group, from the town of Tahrouna in western Libya, began the occupation in protest against the disappearance of one of their commanders.
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Russian diplomats have made scant efforts to meet with Syrian opposition figures and Moscow seems to accept Damascus' portrayal of the opposition as a group of armed criminal gangs, according to a Western official familiar with the Russian thinking.
But he cautioned that an attack in France would be a completely new territory for the group, which had no known track record of attracting Western operatives.
Some of the group studied in Europe, and their work, to the Western eye, can at first appear derivative.
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