Don't you think that people would be proud that they had acquired a weapon which until now has been possessed only by the biggest and most industrialised countries in the world?
Some market watchers had expected a move to boost the euro in the run-up or during the G20 meeting of leading industrialised and developing countries in Montreal.
It says the way to reduce paper use lies in cutting consumption in industrialised countries, improving papermaking efficiency, and using more recycled paper and materials other than wood in manufacture.
Clothing manufacture is highly labour intensive, and even market leaders like Levi's are finding it more and more difficult to maintain jobs in the industrialised countries.
Other ideas include a clean development mechanism that would allow firms and countries to earn credits for investments that help poor countries clean up, and a joint implementation scheme that awards credits for projects carried out in other industrialised countries.
In a ranking of 15-year-olds in 30 industrialised countries in 2006, American teenagers came a dismal 21st in science and 25th in maths.
No mention is made of the fact that America's banking system is both less concentrated and smaller in relation to the economy than those of many other industrialised countries.
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As these industrialised countries, struggling with budget deficits and (in some cases) public war weariness chose to sit out foreign crises more often, the world seems to be becoming a less predictable and more volatile place.
That's why there are left-of-centre governments in nearly all the countries of the EU, and indeed across the industrialised world.
The industrialised world and Latin America have mostly learned this lesson, but it also applies in spades to poorer countries, many of which have not.
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