Inward investment would fall, companies would stay away, other would leave, jobs would go.
In the developing world, only China has received more inward investment than the Mexican border region.
Anyone who follows China closely can see that China is shifting its focus inward.
He also focused inward, selling off dull but profitable businesses such as circuit boards.
Government statistics on inward investment in 1997 will not be published until late next year.
Government officials are at a loss to understand why inward investment has dried up.
He described it as a pendulum in which riders are seated in a circle, facing inward.
In 2010 the borough council pledged a five-year plan to fund inward investment agency Forward Swindon.
Inward investment picked up, big stores moved in and small businesses were encouraged to grow.
He also stressed that increasing direct flights to Wales would increase the inward investment offering.
For this, we set it up between two inward pointing monitors to create a triangle.
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He said skills were the most important thing Northern Ireland had to attract inward investment.
Its rivals are all merging, and Japan's clannish, inward-looking corporate culture makes that very hazardous.
"For being such an outgoing and outspoken culture here, we are very inward looking, " he said.
Bhaskaran: But, the problem is so far, the governments have been inward looking in the crisis.
It demands habits of inward attention, and it often proceeds by indirection and obliquity.
He added that the firm had become "inward looking" and had lost focus on its customers.
Here's another, big factor to add to the mix - the facts around inward migration.
Mr Crawford's problem is that, when he joined in 2000, the inward investment boom was busting.
Amelio's exit raises the question of whether Lenovo will now turn inward, focusing less on new markets.
But long-term, it is inward investment on which many in Northern Ireland have pinned their economic hopes.
It was both our outward and inward appearance, both our safe haven and our source of discomfort.
They have to look inward, rapidly exploiting economies of scale and making major shifts in operational efficiency.
Inward investment was such a big part of Welsh economy with the demise particularly of heavy industry.
Insurers have a remarkably inward-looking focus, with little effort expended to engage regulators, policymakers and others.
It hadn't been the first time that Cardinal Bergoglio had mentioned the inward-looking nature of the church.
China policy makers are trying to shift their focus inward, away from being an export dependent economy.
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"The executive is committed to offering an open and welcoming environment for inward investment, " said Mr Robinson.
Triadic architecture, developed by the Maya, involved a main structure with two inward-facing buildings on either side.
Serrell says they have been trawling far and wide for the inward investment the club desperately needs.
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