For all the mess it made of the US, it is still an unusual British business and British retailer in having made a success of initiatives in parts of the world where retailing culture and practice are very different from the UK (although a recent bashing in South Korea, due to regulatory changes, shows there will always be downs as well as ups).

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President Obama made clear tonight that it is critical that all of us work together to create jobs in America.

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And it has been all of us -- these assessments are not made by our impressions watching cable TV, they are made based on the assessments made by intelligence professionals.

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Wriston, who died in 2005, knew what made the global economy tick, and happily for us, wrote it all down in a book called The Twilight of Sovereignty.

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