He said the United States is the only industrialized country that hasn't yet given the group a proposal for cutting carbon emissions.
Right now there is a paradox: We spend more than any industrialized country, but our health is fair to middling among other developed nations.
And that is something that has existed in every other industrialized country in the world except the United States -- up until this year.
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We already outspend every industrialized country by almost twice as much per person, but our outcomes are nowhere near twice as good as everybody else's.
Bowles notes that the U.S. spends twice as much on health care than any other industrialized country, but routinely finds itself ranked from 25th to 50th among industrialized countries on quality measures.
The U.S. also has the highest teenage birth rate of any industrialized country -- and teenage mothers in the U.S. tend to have less education, prenatal care, and financial resources than their older counterparts.
Since power plants that burn natural gas emit about half the amount of the greenhouse gases as coal-fired power, some say that the gas drilling boom has helped the U.S. become the only major industrialized country to significantly reduce greenhouse emissions.
The cost of a deemed dividend is also greater today because the difference between the current U.S. tax rate (the highest of any industrialized country) and the average tax rate on earnings of foreign subsidiaries is substantially greater than in 1976.
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"It's not surprising to learn this, because the pharmaceutical industry for years has been one of the most effective and powerful lobbying outfits in Washington, and it explains why we have a lot of drug policies in the U.S. that don't look like drug policies in any other industrialized country, " says Avorn.
Lombardy is regarded as one of the four motors of Europe, a highly industrialized region that powers its country with export-led companies, many family-born, like Pirelli, Campari and Luxottica.
Rather, we should be appreciative for what should be the proverbial camel's back-breaking straw: A final wake-up call, one that establishes unmistakably that it is neither in the United States' strategic, national security nor economic interests for this country and other industrialized nations to continue relying upon imported oil from those who wish to do us harm.
This country is younger than all other industrialized nations, and if we get immigration right, we're going to stay young.
Compounding the uncertainty surrounding the eurozone's fourth-largest economy is an upcoming referendum, to be held in 2014, on whether Catalonia -- the country's wealthiest and most industrialized region, containing 16% of the population and producing 19% of its wealth -- wants independence.
Since July, floods have killed at least 320 people and devastated industrialized areas at the center of the south Asian country.
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Compounding this folly, the Chancellor has also endorsed a proposed new "wealth tax" on assets, this in a country that is already one of the most heavily taxed of industrialized nations.
Talks between the G7 industrialized nations and Russia - Serbia's sole friend and perhaps the only country that can draw Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic into an acceptable political settlement - had been going well.
The protocol sets binding greenhouse gas limits on 38 industrialized nations and sets up apparatus such as "emissions trading, " in which a country having trouble meeting its requirements can buy credits from others that exceed them.
And at home, if we can focus on making ourselves more energy efficient, because we are a very inefficient country when it comes to the use of energy, just like all of the industrialized countries.
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