So the Hawaiian tsunami and the very real possibility of a massive storm hitting the east coast of America in the last full week before election day is changing the candidates' calculations.
The firm already serves nearly 2 million electricity users in the north-east of America.
More serious, perhaps, would be the wider alienation of America in the Middle East.
Specifically, I read about the interview at Commentary Magazine's website, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency's website, and the website of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) before I read the original interview on Maariv's website.
The geographical proximity between the U.S. and Canada, as well as the growing political uncertainty in the Middle East and South America, makes Canada one of the more desirable places from which the U.S. can import oil.
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They certainly apply in spades in Okinawa, the lynchpin of America's forward presence in East Asia and home to training areas every bit as essential to the readiness of U.S. forces in the Pacific as Vieques is to their Atlantic-based counterparts.
Pressure in Central Asia and the Middle East should not reduce the focus in other regions of the world such as in Latin America.
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Whether DP World was a safe partner or not, how would it look to Congress and the American public, in the midst of a war against terrorism emanating from the Middle East, to sell operations at some of America's most important ports to an Arab country?
But the Middle East looms equally large in one of the key swing states in America's mid-west, Michigan.
These initial consultations will involve an online survey and regional workshops in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Middle East, beginning in the second half of 2012.
The next and harder stage relies on the actions of countries other than America, including many in the Middle East.
The immediate post-Cold War years saw a collapse of economies in both the former East Bloc and in South America.
Some momentum is possible, but our great multinationals are penalized by currency disparities in the Far East, South America and, of late, Europe.
"I heard it while I was out there, " said Harris, who served on ships in the Middle East and off the coast of South America, among other places, and now expects to start the season in extended spring training.
That his middle name, Hussein, is reckoned to be something of a liability in America is in turn seen in parts of the Middle East as evidence of American Islamophobia.
Like the Panama Canal, which opened almost six decades later, the railway was built to expedite trade shipments between America's west and east coasts in the wake of the Californian Gold Rush.
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But a weaker America would lead to chronic insecurity in East Asia and thus threaten the peaceful conduct of trade and commerce on which America's prosperity depends.
The company expects most of its business to take place in the faster growing regions of the world: Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
The final trend that the media in Israel have failed to notice is the impact that US foreign policy in South America and the Middle East alike has had on the positions of nations like Brazil and Argentina towards Israel.
His company, modestly named Synthetic Genomics (and based, unlike the others, on the east side of America, in Rockville, Maryland), is reluctant to discuss details, but Dr Venter, too, is taken with the pharmaceutical analogy.
The premise is the same in the comic book as the film: In the future, Mega-City One has urban-sprawled its way across the East Coast of America, covering the area from Boston to Washington DC.
Projects are spread rather evenly around the world, according to a September 2012 report from analyst Robert Jackson at Spanish bank Banesto: 29% are in Europe, 29% in Latin America, 22% in the Middle East and 20% in the rest of the world.
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That entails a loss of US jobs, loss of US economic momentum and ultimately, a reduced American stake in global hydrocarbon fundamentals: Music to the ears of conventional gas players in Russia, Central Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
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Regardless of how insignificant Norway is as a world player, it could distort the Western European perception of reality in South America in the same way it has done in the Middle East.
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As in the Middle East, domestic politics limits the amount of pressure America can apply to the nationalists who want a united Ireland.
Particularly popular in Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Asia, these channels generally offer the same programs a home TV would show for free.
That does mean the high growth rates of mobile devices in Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East and Africa should not translate to the same monetary benefit for advertising revenue.
This came as a stark reminder of the dangers facing America (the world's largest oil consumer) and the instability in the Middle East (home of much of the world's oil reserves).
In the 1970s, Latin America's educational performance was comparable to that of East Asia.
As a mark of respect for the memory of Rabin and America's support for peace in the Middle East, he ordered that U.S. flags be flown at half-staff until Rabin's burial.
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