Last, I should like to say Mr Rapoza was observing an interesting turn of events: A third world nation helping to bailout a group of first world nation.
In the modern world, nation-states are too puny to handle many of these challenges alone.
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In the world of nation branding, flags become logos, national anthems advertising jingles.
One such place is the developing world where nation-states are joining to deliver electricity to those 1.3 billion people who are now going without any power.
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The U.S. is, according to the Economic Freedom of the World index, the nation with the 18th freest economy in the world.
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The UK National Commission for UNESCO Culture Committee has submitted a response to the public consultation 'World Heritage for the Nation: Identifying, Protecting and Promoting our World Heritage', published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
That also means the size of the federal government today is nearly 20% bigger than it was during the 60 years after World War II, when America prospered as the richest nation in world history, with resulting, unprecedented, global military dominance.
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But in the optimistic world of "nation branding" even that isn't all bad.
This argument can be paired with the idea that, in the modern world, the nation state is peculiarly wrong-sized for government.
Think an RPG experience with miniatures set in an RTS world, with nation building and cooperative boss encounters as part of the ensemble.
Bond spreads have already registered the fact that in the world of developed nation sovereign debt, we are middle of the pack, not riskless Olympian gods.
It was this firsthand experience, along with the everyday health issues that all families face, that made me realize that even though the U.S. has some of the best doctors in the world, our nation's health care system is broken and desperately needs to be fixed.
Obama used the life of 106-year-old Ann Nixon Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate what the nation has overcome in her lifetime, including the Depression, world wars, the nation's quest for civil rights, a man on the moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even a world connected by technology.
This nation of 46 million people has quickly become the world's most wired nation.
The standard of living rocketed upward, making America the richest nation in world history.
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Like Jimmy Goldsmith, the U.S. has become the world's richest nation by using other people's money to finance its own spectacular and continuing growth.
This is the first time in the history of the world economy where one nation stands to be the primary source for most manufactured goods.
As physicians and scientists, we must first do no harm as we seek ways to improve the health of the nation and world through biomedical research.
And even if he had one, the world's newest nation was not eligible for the Olympics this year because it does not have a Games committee.
The world's richest nation, one that presumes to great moral authority, cannot simply make worthy appeals to conscience and call on others to carry the burden.
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Qualities that with her passing, we too - by the grace of God - may seek to put on afresh, in our own lives and the life of our nation and world.
In 2000, when a Harvard Medical School professor working at the World Health Organization developed a complicated formula to rate the quality and fairness of national health care systems around the world, the richest nation on earth ranked thirty-seventh.
That makes the U.S. the only advanced nation in the world that doesn't guarantee its workers annual leave, according to a report titled " No-Vacation Nation" by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal policy group.
Climate change is arguably the biggest challenge the nation and the world face right now.
We need determined leadership at the national level to move the nation and the world forward.
And what trip to Morocco would be complete without tasting the nation's world-famous cuisine?
Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation in the world, with more than 244 million people.
The president of Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, will be there together with his ASEAN partners.
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