Though industry surveys show that interest in studying abroad remains strong, since Sept. 11 everyone has been more security-conscious.
The department considered that rival firms, at home and abroad, had strong enough brands and sufficient capacity to keep Whirlpool-Maytag in order.Last month the DoJ sprang another surprise.
While saying she would not support intervention abroad without strong justification, she offers an expansive definition of the national interest that includes struggles against environmental degradation, poverty and disease.
Even so, some small businesses said that in the current economic slump — federal statistics show overall exports by the United States fell 11.2percentt from October 2008 to October 2009 — their sales abroad remained strong and that they had been able to add jobs.
In a speech last month at New York University, the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations, Susan E. Rice, declared that America's influence abroad is stronger when we lead by example.
It is these crosswinds that have convinced some people that the Fed should have waited to talk about an exit until the economic signals at home and abroad looked stronger.
It aims to eventually sell 20% of its Seville production abroad — "our strongest statement of intent of going global," as Smith puts it.
In contrast, the observed association with travelling abroad was stronger (mOR 2.7 vs. 1.7).
Most important, Barack Obama knows that America cannot be strong abroad unless we are strong at home.
The resistance to the American move was equally strong abroad.
