That has led to a scramble as more Western banks set up securities joint ventures.
"He is somebody who perhaps more than any other director epitomizes the western mind set in terms of hopes and fears and dreams, " says Brooks.
Western countries seem set to observe these unfolding dramas largely in the role of concerned but powerless spectators.
Also, we know that the Chinese are not big on the western keyboard as set up with the Qwerty.
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Russia's default on its government obligations has set back Western investment in Russia by years, probably decades.
"The longer-term proposals for the Great Western franchise will be set out in the spring, " he added.
The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), led by Helen Zille, a former Cape Town mayor and now premier of the Western Cape, seemed set to improve sharply on the 15% it won in the last local polls in 2006.
Set on the western edge of the lake, the town of Lucerne is as placid as the waters in which its medieval buildings are reflected.
When you work in a very Western society, you learn a set of processes and have a set of expectations.
Western chiefs at first threatened to set up a breakaway state, but have since proposed their own man as president.
Western companies will be free to set up joint ventures, even in sensitive areas like mobile phones, insurance and banking.
The game is set against the backdrop of Western colonialism and mercantilism coming to Japan, adding yet another layer of history and politics to the fairy tale.
Finally, Athens has set out to expand their local production potential by offering exploration bids off their Western coast, as well as entering into discussions with Cyprus in a bid to set up Greece as a transport hub for natural gas from the Leviathan natural gas field.
KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) -- Western Europe's 113th Ariane rocket is set to launch two satellites on Wednesday including AfriStar aimed at radio broadcasts to Africa.
Likewise Tim Winton's and Robert Drewe's novels -often set along the southern coast of Western Australian - vividly evoke the primal sensuality of the surf and its ability to calm and inspire, but also destroy.
Amid the Asian economic crisis, now seemingly set for another virulent phase, the Western-influenced IMF vets economic policy in Korea, Thailand and Indonesia.
After the death of one suspect and the capture of the other, people in Boston and its western suburbs thanked police, cheered, applauded and set off fireworks.
An official fund for victims' families, and the community as a whole, has now been established: The Sandy Hook School Support Fund, set up by the United Way of Western Connecticut will provide support services to families and the community.
Ms Spence's best friend from secondary school, Amanda Robertson, said that she worked for a company, Fraser Properties, set up by Ms Spence in Great Western Road, Glasgow, as an office worker but left in 2010 after many customers began to complain about the mortgage and lettings company.
Not far from Corleone, in the rolling hills of western Sicily, there is a farming co-operative set up on land confiscated from the Mafia.
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EU's refusal, at a meeting in Luxembourg shortly before Mr Ecevit's government took office, to put Turkey on a list of candidates to join the club had set off a wave of bitter anti-western anger among Turks that was impossible even for a pro-European like Mr Cem to ignore.
And although the influx of western sunbirds is turning the city into a giant outdoor film set, the indoors infrastructure is shabby.
With the precedent of a supranational organization firmly set by the European Coal and Steel Community, Western Europe moved forward again in 1957 with the launch of the European Economic Community--the Common Market, as it came to be called.
Whether Western interests (mining, tobacco and finance) should withdraw or set themselves up as drivers of change is a question that demands careful and urgent consideration.
The ring road around the western city of Caen was also blocked, and more barricades were set up near the northern port of Le Havre, and at a key entry point to the motorway from the north to Paris.
They want to set up their own development bank to reduce their reliance on Western financial institutions.
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