Even Malaysia and Singapore, with well-funded and efficient police and security services, appear to have made their first arrests on the basis of foreign tip-offs.
The president canceled a foreign trip and helped tip the balance for a narrow congressional victory on his health care proposal.
They seek out potential orders from foreign governments, tipping off arms companies and then promoting companies' wares to those governments.
There too, a foreign intelligence tip-off had led to the alert, but no arrests were made and no explosives found in the stadium.
Foreign Language Tips A small study found that Chinese immigrants in America spoke English more fluently when shown American images (like Mount Rushmore) rather than Chinese ones (like the Great Wall).
Travelers can provide foreign safety tips, but Web forums catering to backpacking budget tourists, who often spend more time than high-end travelers dealing with local police, aggressive hawkers and other such difficulties, generally prove the most detailed.
This has not much endeared him to his party chiefs, who do not look to take foreign policy tips from backbenchers, especially one critical of the government's actual intervention in Libya and mooted one in Syria.That augurs well for the trenchant examination of defence policy that this government, which has cut the defence budget hard, deserves.
The average state salary in Cuba is less than $20 per month, although "most Cubans have access to extra income through jobs with foreign firms, tips from working in tourism or money sent by relatives living abroad".
As long as Lebanon's leaders rely on foreign intervention to tip the internal balance of power in their favour, they will remain passive bystanders in determining their country's future.
Many readers can no doubt empathise with that awkward feeling of arriving at a hotel in a new country and realising that they have no foreign currency to tip the porters (as they show you how the remote control works for the third time).But on the other hand people may need to be careful about what they wish for.
Of course it would be a surprising result if Google didn't grow its overseas business in the 3rd quarter so expect that foreign income will tip over 50% of Google's earnings for the 3rd quarter.
