Weighty Role on the World Stage
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Some fear that American consumers will pull back from their exuberant spending, cooling demand for goods worldwide and dragging down the global economy.
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As 2005 approaches, the world sees much more than a passing political season. Pivotal elections and ongoing strategic shifts announce a historic time, whose significance will define the coming decades.
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Economic size wields major influence over how well a nation does at the Olympics.
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A giant global producer, China is expanding its role as a consumer and, in the process, creating threats and opportunity.
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The world&#39;s rich and powerful - already bowed under the weight of their great responsibilities - were advised yesterday that they must learn to cope with yet another obligation.
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I love international days of this and that. They are such grand occasions for leaders to remember some long forgotten agenda. The charitable among us hope that occasions
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NEW YORK - In the game of Wall Street musical chairs, one of the biggest seats has just been taken.
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A once-ailing heavy industry is now in heavy demand. The next step? Global consolidation. For the last decade, much of the West&#39;s steel industry has been in the doldrums.
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Comment is free: Timothy Garton Ash: An interdependent world faces many challenges. Britain should promote a coalition of democracies to tackle them.
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Pundits often opine that America's stature is declining on the global stage. It turns out that Americans -- literally -- are not standing as tall, compared  with the rest of the world, as they used to.
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The G-8 summit that President Bush and seven other world leaders are attending next weekend in Russia is often billed as a gathering of the world&#039;s leading economic powers.
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Opinion Stepping in and taking charge
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The 2008 World Economic Forum can't be all about the global economy.  Or can it?
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By Brian McIver THE world's superpowers have always dominated the space race. But with companies and agencies all rushing to attract tourists and commercial passengers to the heavens, Europe and Britain are now leading the way.
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Inflation and recession add to the list of world issues on the agenda at the World Economic Forum.
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Upcoming events around the world.
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At the World Economic Forum, aid to the devolping world took center stage--and China remained a mystery