Apple, for instance, was among the first tech companies to designate overseas salespeople in high-tax countries in a manner that allowed them to sell on behalf of low-tax subsidiaries on other continents, sidestepping income taxes, according to former executives.
Within Army ranks, many reactions to the black beret are positive -- mostly, it seems, because soldiers dislike the current standard envelope cap, formally designated the overseas or garrison cap but widely known among the troops as the dunce cap.
It also has a roster slot to acquire a second designated player from overseas.
But with criticism from investors and analysts rising, Mr. Greenberg created a seven-member office of the chairman in May of 2002 with Mr. Sullivan, formerly in charge of A.I.G.'s vast property and casualty operations overseas, designated to share the highest position of authority after Mr. Greenberg's, with Edmund S.W. Tse, a former chief of A.I.G.'s worldwide life insurance business.
Bermuda is officially designated a British Overseas Territory, but it operates with significant autonomy.
In 1897 Spain's overseas minister designated Ponce as the capital of the southern region, one of the island's two major districts.
It was perhaps this last point that inspired Greenlanders to vote overwhelmingly in 2008 to increase their autonomy from Denmark, and Greenland is now officially designated a self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark.
When AbbVie (NYSE ABBVV) tried to purchase the Irish firm Shire (LON: SHP) in a $52 billion inversion deal in 2014, the Treasury department enacted new rules that taxed AbbVie's overseas cash designated to fund the deal.
The Portuguese Constitution of 1933 designated Angola and Cabinda as overseas provinces.
Nearly 700 overseas panel physicians designated by the U.S. Department of State perform these screenings (2).
