When you extrapolate that and think through that today via the Internet, you can learn about as much in the same amount of time about some company you don't know anything about on the other side of the world as you would some company on the other side of the country.
The tantalum price in Hong Kong is roughly within transport costs of the price in Rotterdam, on the other side of the world.
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The doctors go online and get the patient's data (medical history, drug allergies, etc), which happens to be stored on the computer of a clinic on the other side of the world.
Even as fans gather for the first performance of One in Vegas on May 23rd, the same thing will be happening on the other side of the world as the Immortal World Tour rolls into Nagoya, Japan.
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Kearney says the influence of Bulls' coach Steve McNamara was key to his decision to move to the other side of the world.
First, it reduces the chance that our families, our businesses, and our economy will be held hostage to the whims of the oil market -- will be held hostage to something that happens on the other side of the world.
And forget--for at least the time being--that impending PowerPoint presentation on the other side of the world.
Starting this month Saab will offer a new vehicle, called the 9-2X, though it will be built on the other side of the world from Sweden.
He was speaking distantly, Todd was, watching the man but talking through him, finding his shadow somewhere on the other side of the world.
Saab will offer a new vehicle starting this month called the 9-2X, though it will be built on the other side of the world from Sweden.
Why do they make us ring a call centre where the staff might as well be on the other side of the world and sometimes are?
It was up to the men themselves to decide what to do with the skills, rather than wait for commands from the other side of the world.
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Unsurprisingly, horse racing-mad Australians have taken the champion thoroughbred to their hearts, with diehard Black Caviar fans even traveling to the other side of the world to cheer her on at Britain's Royal Ascot.
Not only would I have had to pause or put the kibosh my 30-day trial run with the BlackBerry Z10, but I'm also on the other side of the world in a foreign country.
Those people over there, whether they be in the house next door, a city or county over or on the other side of the world are able to make something better and cheaper than I can.
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What this means, I hope, is that we have an advocate for the issues that define life on the other side of the world, issues that elude world leaders in other arenas (business, politics, and, yes, the media).
Those created in the atmosphere on the other side of the world, which then had to make the 20, 000km (12, 000 mile) journey through the earth's interior to get to Japan, would have had a chance to turn their coats.
Many times outages are not restored, sometimes for weeks, because the location of a broken power line is not known immediately or a massive overhaul on systems is needed and parts may be on the other side of the world.
The DockStar network adapter also has three additional USB ports, allowing connection of up to four mass storage devices at a time, providing more to share and access whether you're across the room or on the other side of the world.
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"One of the things I do whenever I bring a solar suitcase to a clinic in another country is, I really let the health-care workers know that there are people on the other side of the world who care about them, " she said.
Photographs and videos can rocket through cyberspace, instantly viewable by strangers on the other side of the world or by law enforcement agencies, courtesy of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other social media.
He was confident that the supporters of the 32 qualified nations, some of whom will travel from the other side of the world, will arrive to find the infrastructure up to standard.
Tall buildings, walkable neighborhoods, and a good transit system reduce the average cost of face-to-face interaction in exactly the same way that steam ships and low tariffs reduced the average costs of shipping goods to the other side of the world.
The carbon footprint of manufactured drugs, which are often shipped from the other side of the world, is huge - if these drugs can be recycled then so much the better.
The site was aimed at the New York market, but they began to notice most of their traffic was coming from the other side of the world in Asia.
She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas.
You have no idea what goes on on the other side of the world.
It was a chilling account of war that was echoed on the other side of the world.
Brazil, geographically, is on the other side of the world and is clearly the more Western of the group.
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