But rich countries are afraid that would compromise the global drugs industry and thus limit its ability to undertake the expensive business of developing new products.

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That America might choose not to undertake the dirty business of mining (or oil drilling, etc.) within our borders does not diminish the importance of minerals.

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Unless Europe mandates use of the American identifier, and that is confirmed by legislation in the 27 member countries, banks will have a difficult business case to undertake the expensive conversion to a single global standard.

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By 2006 the situation had become so bleak that Mr Ford and Don LeClair, then his finance director, decided to undertake a dramatic refinancing of the business by raising bank loans secured against the company's assets.

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And today the FT announces that Deutsche Bank will undertake a major restructuring, reducing risky business while growing safer, if more boring areas such as asset management and transaction banking.

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The ruling should ease concerns about the predictability of the tax regime for foreign takeovers in India and may pave the way for Vodafone to undertake an initial public offering of its business there.

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In an article in the August issue of Business Communications Review, Bart Stuck and Michael Weingarten undertake to provide a different type of analysis.

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Developing countries among us will promptly undertake actions whose projected effects on emissions represent a meaningful deviation from business as usual in the midterm, in the context of sustainable development, supported by financing, technology, and capacity-building.

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