But it's a reminder of how the most important parts of the economy are controlled from elsewhere.
Yet Japan's success was greatest among its exporting giants, who were in the least controlled parts of the economy and the most exposed to foreign competition.
And the electoral machinery the U.S. designed in 1946 provided a veneer of democratic process beneath which a handful of families, allied to American investors and addicted to payoffs and kickbacks, controlled Philippine land, economy, and society.
The Democrat party controlled press told us the economy contracted in the fourth quarter because of government spending cuts.
U.S. companies beginning to get into the mix in Burma, which we think is good for our own economy, but also is also going to be good for the development of a private sector within Burma that can create a broader base of prosperity in a country where the government controlled so much of the economy in the past.
The ruse was simple: it allowed Wenzhou to maintain the fiction that most of its economy was state-controlled.
But with an inexperienced new CEO, a badly botched new privacy policy, a marked decline in public trust and a looming EU antitrust investigation, it is hard to see Google dominating today's Web 3.0 world from the same unchallenged position as it once controlled the Web 2.0 economy.
The Fed attempts to keep the economy moving forward at a controlled pace by manipulating interest rates.
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Perhaps at some point the technicians will find a way to get the cars out of the lab and onto the road in a similarly controlled manner to get more accurate fuel economy readings.
Bakrie-controlled companies cover the breadth of Indonesia's economy, including mining, oil and gas, palm oil, property, telecommunications and finance.
China's economy, on the other hand, is still largely controlled by the state.
The City is almost a government in and of itself, within the U.K., wholly captured and controlled by the finance industry that holds for ransom the rest of its economy.
"The House has twice passed legislation to replace it with commonsense cuts and reforms that won't threaten public safety, national security, or our economy, " the speaker said, referring to measures passed by the GOP-controlled chamber last year.
The heart of the German manufacturing economy moreover consists of the so-called mittelstand of medium-sized, family-controlled companies that are for the most part unlisted.
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The Conservative-controlled county council said that if they gain City Deal status it "could bring massive benefits to the local economy and help keep more of the money generated from future growth within the local area".
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