Perhaps even more worrying, in the past year or so, three of Africa's leading countries have had heavy setbacks.
Germany, he believes, now deserves to take its place as one of the world's leading countries, with its foreign policy made at home.
On top of that, no company in its right mind would want a reactor that has not received a stamp of approval from one of the world's leading nuclear countries.
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Following a pledge last weekend by the world's leading industrialized countries to keep the financial system from foundering, Libor on three-month dollar loans has dropped 40 points to 4.42% throughout the week, Bloomberg News reported Friday.
When finance ministers and central bankers from the world's leading industrialized countries gather here Friday, they are expected to boast about the fact that the world has enjoyed six straight years of economic growth of 4% or better the first time in a generation this has happened.
Russian politicians bridled at McCain's call to kick Russia out of the Group of Eight leading industrial countries and his fierce denunciation of Moscow's invasion of Georgia earlier this year.
In other words, U.S. refiners are exporting U.S. high-sulfur distillates instead of refining it into low-sulfur diesel fuel than can be sold in the U.S. Chile, Mexico and several other countries in Central America have been the leading export markets for high-sulfur U.S. diesel.
That hasn't worked, since many countries question why the world's leading economic power can't come up with the money itself.
The initial research will focus on tuberculosis, the world's second-leading infectious killer, which disproportionately affects developing countries.
According to our house-price indicators (see chart), America's housing market is leading the way down for the 20 countries covered.
Universal Music Group is the world's leading music company with wholly owned record operations or licensees in 77 countries.
The moves have seen the yen slide more than 15% since November, leading to concerns that some countries may oppose Japan's aggressive stance.
Shazam is the world's leading media engagement company with more than 300 million people in 200 countries and adding another 2 million new users each week.
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Netflix is the world's leading Internet television network with more than 33 million members in 40 countries enjoying more than one billion hours of TV shows and movies per month, including original series.
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Netflix is the world's leading Internet television network with more than 30 million members in 40 countries enjoying more than one billion hours of TV shows and movies per month, including original series.
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As one of the world's leading brands, by then running fast-food restaurants in dozens of countries worldwide, McDonald's was plainly associated with the trademark around the globe and could reasonably expect the South African courts to protect it from lookalikes.
Two matches in the continent's leading club competition, the European Champions League, were among 380 matches in 15 different countries deemed suspicious by Europol.
This week the Contact Group of six countries dealing with the Balkans (America, Russia and Western Europe's leading quartet) rewarded Mr Milosevic for opening negotiations with secessionists in Kosovo by rescinding an investment ban.
In a televised statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the attack was "perpetrated by Hezbollah, Iran's leading terrorist proxy, " as part of a global campaign that has reached a dozen countries on five continents.
At Switzerland's Art Basel, the leading international contemporary and modern art fair, more than 300 galleries from 36 countries are showing around 2, 500 artists until Sunday.
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"This transaction is in line with Carrefour's new strategy of focusing on geographies and countries in which it holds or aims to develop a leading position, " the company said in a statement.
Bosch, the Stuttgart company that is Europe's leading parts-maker and one of the world's top five, has factories in ten eastern countries.
It recently rolled out the feature in other countries, causing Europe to belatedly freak out and leading reputable and reliable U.S. media to cover it as if it were a new feature.
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