Yet copying its strategy has become far harder now that most big emerging markets are in effect closed to large takeovers by foreign firms.
Similar leaflets have been fluttering down across southern Lebanon for days, meaning large sections of the country are in effect closed to traffic under threat of attack from the air.
In fact, there are some sports that are in effect closed to all but the most wealthy nations.
"They are in effect closing a synagogue," Israel Wohlgelernter, the synagogue's 71-year-old rabbi, said in an interview last week.
Advocates for riders and some elected officials argued that such turnstiles were, in effect, closed entrances for parents with infants and strollers, shoppers with packages, people with crutches or walkers, and people with guide dogs.
A loophole that allows bars and restaurants to use tips to bring staff pay up to the minimum wage will be in effect closed from tomorrow, Lord Mandelson said today.
I would argue that my friends' daughter and many young people like her suffer a loss of liberty when the past is in effect closed down and the present becomes the measure of all things.
Teton Capital Partners, a $362m long-short equity fund that has posted annualised returns of 21% a year since 2001, is in effect closed to outside investors because its founder, Quincy Lee, apparently doesn't want to get bigger.
By Thursday, because of high waters — and more than 100 barges that broke loose from their moorings near St . Louisover the weekend — portions of the river were, in effect, closed.
The 53-year-old judge made what were in effect closing arguments by acknowledging that he became "very emotional" when forcefully denying the allegations at a Judiciary Committee hearing last week.
More problematic are studies of the details of how examiners make judgements when Angoffing an exam, with strong suggestions that if normative data are provided then these overly influence the judgements, but if they are absent then the judgements are, in effect, close to being random [ 16, 17].
