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...acquire, your child calling home from Shanghai, your job moving to Mexico City and your brand-new Changfeng gleaming in the driveway." The trio urges U.S. companies to fight back by creating low-cost, high-quality and ingenious products and by reaching deep into big markets. And to "adapt, adopt and synthesize ideas from everyone and everywhere...
...recent security advisory posted by the Office for Information Security and Privacy stated that HUIDs "should not be used as financial account numbers… [and] in cases where it is used that way today, a plan should be developed to adopt an alternative approach as soon as possible...
...visit to Jerusalem in 1924, when still a prince, Selassie had been charmed by a marching band of forty Armenian children, exiled orphans of the Ottoman genocide, and arranged to adopt them as his court musicians. The boys were tutored by European music teachers and pretty soon brass bands were busting out all over: the Police Orchestra, the Imperial Bodyguard Band, the Army Band, the Selassie Theater Orchestra or the Municipality of Addis Band. After Italy's brief occupation ended in 1941 - Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that has never been colonized - the country began to open...
...avoid unrest, leaders cannot blindly adopt draconian anti-inflation measures. That's because they risk public backlash if they overreact to the inflation threat and kill economic growth in the process. Developing nations need to grow quickly to create jobs and increase incomes for their large populations. Asians from India to South Korea have come to expect high growth as almost a God-given right, and in an increasingly democratized region, voters won't hesitate to toss out of office any politician who doesn't deliver the goods...
...developed countries will do between now and 2020, and says that developing countries should commit to binding measures in a new treaty," says Philip Clapp, deputy managing director of the Pew Environment Group. "The question about that language is if that is enough to convince developing countries to adopt a long-term target - because it is very vague language...