"This has always been publicized as the other people disease - HIV is something that's happening in Africa, it's happening to gay men, it's happening to drug users So HIV is something that is happening there to somebody in a far away country."
VOA: standard.2010.03.02
On the other side of the country, faraway from the Jamie Dimon show underway in New York, Wells Fargo reported a 17% jump in profit thanks to its U.S. mortgage business.
As a result Belgium debt yields are well over 3% above German Bunds and the country might not be that faraway from the debt spiral that has entrapped those further south like Spain and Italy.
Today, no country is in the old sense faraway when the consequences of regional instability and terrorism - and then also climate change, poverty, mass population movements and even organised crime - reverberate quickly round the globe.