The Wallis and Futuna islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia may be scattered across the southern rim of the Pacific, separated from France by oceans and continents.
Significantly, he has invited President Lula to visit Peru when it hosts the November summit of the 21 Pacific Rim countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
The smoldering ruin of the once-vibrant Pacific Rim is devastating testimony to the destructiveness of those traditional IMF prescriptions of devaluation and tax increases.
The ICSID has yet to rule on this jurisdictional issue, but when lawyers for the Salvadoran government pushed previously to have the case dismissed on the grounds that Pacific Rim has no right to an exploitation permit, the ICSID ruled in favor of Pacific Rim.
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The economies of the Pacific Rim and of Latin America are creating new business growth, which offers the potential of new competition and new clients.
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It will be attended by the leaders of every country on the Pacific Rim.
APEC's ostensible mission: to bind the economies of the Pacific rim closer together.
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Indeed, China appears to be striving to achieve not only economic dominance of the Pacific Rim but also a significant military advantage over her neighbors, and quite possibly, the United States.
McNERNEY: Mr. President, few forums are watched more closely by those of us in the business community than APEC -- testimony to the extraordinary opportunity it represents for both sides of the Pacific Rim.
As trade negotiators from eleven Pacific Rim countries wrap up the 16th round of negotiations surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, consider what they have experienced.
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The winds of recession will be blowing over the Pacific Rim until at least late 1998.
In 1997, Shrake set up a subsidiary in Nevada called Pacific Rim Exploration, Inc. as a U.S.-based company to act as the exploration arm of Pacific Rim.
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Many geeks were either ranting or raving yesterday about the debut of the first Pacific Rim trailer (as seen below).
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The report published Monday says China is close to attaining enough military muscle to deny the U.S. and allied forces access to much of the Western Pacific rim.
What happens in major cities on the western Pacific Rim could provide an early indication of what's to come for the United States.
The problem is that none of the globe's leaders know what to do. n The Pacific Rim.
There is a broad pattern repeated across these tables, with a cluster of Asian, Pacific Rim, countries at the top, European and western countries in the upper and middle ranks, with countries in North Africa and the Middle East in the lower ranks.
Pacific Rim is the major wildcard of the summer, an original entry that is gaining massive buzz among the geek set but.
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What if he were overheard outlining Beijing's plans for expanding its hegemonic influence in the Pacific rim, at the expense of the United States, its allies and interests?
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The IMF -- at the behest of the U.S. Treasury Department -- helped set off and deepen an easily avoidable disaster that has blighted the Pacific Rim, Russia and much of Latin America.
Butterflies flap their wings on the Pacific Rim and we feel the winds of deflation on Wall Street.
From this vantage point, unless Man of Steel connects on a primal level or Pacific Rim really is a game-changer, Iron Man 3 is the presumptive box office champion of summer 2013, if not the entire calendar year.
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He decided to go into petrochemicals while attending a Pacific Rim business conference in the Indonesian island of Bali in mid-1994.
Ultimately, the government of El Salvador opted not to grant Pacific Rim an exploitation permit.
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But then came the Pacific Rim crisis, and the IMF shoveled out tens of billions of dollars in various rescue schemes.
And sports economist Rodney Fort of Washington State University thinks it could be just a matter of time before the league has its own franchises in the Pacific Rim, now that the talent pool there has grown.
On Nov. 18 and 19 in Manila, deputy finance ministers and central bank officers from 14 Pacific Rim nations -- all members of APEC -- discussed the possibility of establishing for Asia some manner of economic assistance fund similar to or in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund.
Pacific Rim also disputes the land ownership charge, claiming to own or lease all of the lands it is required to own in order to comply with Salvadoran mining laws.
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The exploration permit allowed Pacific Rim to perform exploratory drilling in the area, which is what caught the attention of local communities.
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