Eight out of ten legal exports still go to America, not down much from nine out of ten at the turn of the century.
At this year's finals in Japan and South Korea there will be five African teams, four Asian sides (two of which have qualified as hosts) and three from North and Central America, out of a total of 32 teams.
He should not hold back from stimulus packages to help America out of recession.
Slim pulled out a document from a Bank of America report to back up his case that his company was not overcharging in Mexico.
The administration has berated Europeans for not importing more goods from Asia and thus taking the heat out of America's growing current-account deficit.
Tellingly, he points out that successful models in America, from the likes of Honda, Toyota and Audi, offer these baubles only as expensive (ie, profitable) extras, because the basic cars are attractive enough in their own right.
Morgan, an investment bank, estimates that the dividend pay-out of America's 500 largest companies has fallen from over half of profits in 1990 to about a third now.
But its parent company stepped in at the last minute and saved Securities America from total failure saying it would settle the claims out of its own deep pockets.
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VUKUNET, from NEC Display Solutions of America, is the engine that powers the digital out-of-home advertising business.
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Much of America's drone operation is hidden from view, carried out by the CIA and thus away from public gaze and accountability.
Europe reluctantly agreed and, once America walked away from Kyoto, turned out to be the mainstay of the carbon market that the protocol has created.
Every year, more than 2.5 million tons of fertilizer head out from here to farmers in the Caribbean and Central and South America.
In addition, the threat to cable systems from digital satellite broadcasters has receded in America (partly because Mr Murdoch has bowed out of the satellite business there).
From 1988 to 2005 the team sold out only 12 home games--7 of which featured America's Team, the Dallas Cowboys.
They point out that America's manufacturing base has been cut down by years of competition from China and other lower-cost countries.
Historically, says Doug Massey of Princeton University, the number of illegal immigrants from Mexico correlates most closely with economic growth in America and with the number of visas handed out, not with increased policing of the border.
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This morning a Wells Fargo analyst cut his earnings estimates for Bank of America, pointing out that the bank had suffered more than most banks from the recent recession and that it had been hit hard by mortgage losses related to the purchase of Countrywide.
Statistics bear this out: a large part of America's growth in the past year did indeed come from more people working, as well as working harder.
There is a sense that although there's still a lot of uncertainties out there -- Europe, the price of oil -- that America is slowly repairing from this extraordinary economic and financial crisis.
It's starting from a position of strength in North America and China, and it hasn't even begun to wring out global inefficiency.
After announcing the earlier recalls Toyota made the unprecedented move of shutting production at six plants in North America and withdrawing from sale several models while it figured out what had gone wrong with its accelerator pedal.
Our own Forbes Capital Hospitality Index had it lower, at No. 21, and the "Economic Freedom of the World" report just out from the Cato (nyse: CTR - news - people ) and Fraser institutes of North America ranks it No. 19.
Within the past thirty years, free market reforms have brought an unprecedented explosion of global wealth creation and have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in nations from India, China, Brazil, central and Eastern Europe, as well as Latin America and Africa.
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The Mexican intervention, controversial at the time and in league with the American Treasury, is now widely judged a success, if only in the sense that once the bail-out was in place, the risk that contagion from Mexico's financial troubles might infect the rest of Latin America passed swiftly.
Apart from the dubious methods cited in the lawsuits, drug firms have a variety of legal means to spin out their patents in America.
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