It was the first signal that Labour was re-engaging with the world and rejecting Bennite socialism in one country.
Mr Serra likes to say that Brazil holds three negative world records: it has the highest interest rates in the world, the heaviest tax burden of any emerging country and one of the lowest rates of public investment.
In 1969, NASA gave the country and the world one of the most iconic moments in the history of television when it broadcast the moon landing.
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This corner of the world is elephant country in more ways than one.
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If there's one country in the world which is driving the world economy at the moment in terms of differences at the margin, it's China.
And every rich country in the world has one.
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Mali's Tuareg rebels are now in control of the north of the country - one of the poorest in the world.
Harlan Loeb, the region's counsel for the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil-rights organisation, reckons that the World Church of the Creator is one of the fastest-growing white supremacy groups in the country.
Fears that the third world will steal rich-world output and jobs are based on the old fallacy that an increase in one country's output must be at the expense of another's.
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The Chilean government said it was not worried about Bolivia's move, as "no-one in the world will accept that a country unilaterally dismisses a treaty which is in full force".
That said, the moral atmosphere of the country is a brave new world compared with the one I grew up in.
"Just like American companies have located plants in other parts of the world where there is a big market for their products, so have foreign companies put plants in this country, because this country is still obviously one of the biggest markets in the world, " Heijmen says.
Despite the lack of results in the last decade on most environmental issues, Mr Myers believes the realisation that a crisis in one country causes serious trouble for many others - and sometimes the whole world - may be taking root among national leaders.
While he said debt is occurring throughout the Western world and are not isolated to any one country, he cited the U.S. in particular.
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Such is the swathe of wines on offer that one could be forgiven for asking whether there is a country in the world that doesn't produce wine.
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The election of Dilma Rousseff in Brazil is generally seen as a continuation of the policies that took the country from poor and bankrupt to one of the most promising economies in the world.
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It's the only surviving above ground remnant of the World Trade Center and yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation named it one of the 11 most endangered places in the country.
In addition, although the hundreds of stock markets around the world have consolidated into one or at most a handful of exchanges in each country, cross-border regulation makes it difficult for international takeovers to take place, and governments do not seem to be in any hurry to change the rules.
It is an irony, though, that his adopted country is the one place in the developed world where the neoDarwinian explanations that he and his colleagues created are not the commonplace of the schoolbooks, and where many people prefer to cling to the campfire tales of Genesis, rather than face the awesome thesis that Mr Mayr helped to elucidate.
"It's a Second World War gunnery trainer - one of only six left in the country, although 40 were built, " said Patrick.
The U.S. holds the No. 8 spot this year, as it is undeniably one of the most widely recognized country brands in the world.
Turkey is a rapidly developing country with one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
India is the second country in the world after the USA that can offer images with one-metre resolution.
Today, our country remains one of the most open economies in the world.
Planked steak, for example, was "one of the more spectacular dishes produced in this country until World War II, " writes James Beard.
This is one of the reasons after WW II no country in the world outside of Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union had any gold.
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The country is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, along with Russia, India and China.
Today, your country is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world.
Some 10 million visitors fly in and out of the country every year from all over the world (though one popular destination, the vacation island of Phuket, is about an hour's flight from either Singapore or Bangkok).
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