Another quick get-to-know-you meeting with U.S. President Bill Clinton may also be arranged soon, as is customary with any new Japanese leader.
As a young man I thought I knew everything, and as a middle-aged man I still think I know everything but have allowed myself some subtle U-turns on things I once believed to be universal truths.
Now it boasts three divisions--ferries, ports and logistics, although most U.K. landlubbers know it solely as a means of doing a "booze cruise"--loading up a hired van with cheap beer and wine from French supermarkets for the festive season.
Up front there are minimal LED indicators including one for power, another for network connectivity and finally Sling's upside-down "U" that lets you know when someone is using it.
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It's reassuring to know that Chicago-based U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who has a voracious appetite for rooting out political corruption and must see his city and the rest of Illinois as one giant buffet, is living up to his reputation as a tough and independent Goliath slayer who doesn't hesitate to take on the powerful.
Zhong Hua, chief financial officer of the publicly traded arm of China's Cnooc, said in an interview that the company's U.S. exposure will advance its technical know-how.
Additionally, the U.S. has strengthened protections so foreign-born workers know their rights.
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This was the essential difficulty of the task at hand: The higher-ups in the U.S. Army needed to know about the enemy in this unexplored province, so in order to learn as much as they could, they were going to stick a small group of troops in its midst.
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The U.S. government watches right-wing extremist groups because we know they are dangerous.
In the U.S., by contrast, voters must get to know--and size up--aspirants during the presidential campaign itself.
In fact, you know, African-Americans, ordinary people in the U.S. south have been resisting segregation since its inception nearly 100 years before.
Last week, as you might already know, AOL laid off over 200 U.S.-based employees, the vast majority of them from its Manhattan-based media operation.
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We've got to rely on American know-how and young engineers right here at the U who are focused on energy. (Applause.) That is our future.
What we know is that the yield on the 10-Year U.S. Treasury increased and unexpected 123.4 basis points from 2.334 on October 8 to 3.568 on December 16.
But many of the 3 million customers of this solid New England outfit might be surprised to know that this utility is a subsidiary of U.K.-based National Grid Transco.
But when you look at his, you know, 14 years in Congress and secretary of energy under Bill Clinton, and U.N. ambassador and two-term governor of New Mexico, you know, you compare him to some others who may have less experience and say, well, this guy has in a lot of rounded - a well-rounded resume.
In politics, we know the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to super-sized contributions for political purposes.
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"If you look at a device like the BlackBerry, I know the U.S. government has gone over that with a fine-tooth comb, and that makes me feel good, " said Mr. Wysopal.
It's not popular in Germany to take all of our - a lot of euros here to the U.S. because we don't know it.
Still, well over half of U.S. library card holders don't know whether their local public library lends e-books, according to a new Pew report.
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U.S. car companies have figured out, you know what, if we produce high-quality electric vehicles, if we produce high-quality low gas -- or high gas mileage vehicles, those will sell.
We know very little about them except a few biographical details which all of a sudden seem ideally suited to the papacy. (This is totally opposite the case of U.S. Presidents, whom we know far too much about thanks to exhaustive, psyche-exposing multiyear campaigns).
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Because I've been working down there for nearly a year as the U.N. special envoy, I've been in constant touch with our people through the U.N. on the ground, and you know we lost a lot of our people there -- the largest loss of life in the history of the United Nations on a single day.
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Two old hats who know a few tricks about stocks--Warren Buffett and John Bogle--say the U.S. equity markets are headed for a long period of underperformance.
He never bought off on the stuff that you know came to be the series of excuses for the behavior, the rationale for non-U.S. action in certain situations.
The road begins by admitting that if Iran acquires know-how to build a nuclear bomb, it won't be the first time the U.S. failed to prevent a developing country from becoming a nuclear state.
In the sovereign debt space, which is government bonds, the debt ratings of developed countries remain under pressure for downgrading, including in the U.K., France and as we all know now, here in the U.S. But emerging markets, which have enjoyed back-to-back years of credit rating upgrades are seeing those upgrade numbers dwindle, with some negative outlooks in some developing nations.
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