In the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing.
The World Trade Organisation, which convened last week's conference, was once regularly targeted by protesters as the secretive, all-powerful puppet master of global capitalism.
In "The Bin Ladens," Steve Coll writes that he "mocked his Western adversaries for misunderstanding him as a premodern fanatic, a bearded loner in a faraway cave; he saw himself, instead, as a master of global technology and change").
Mr Speaker, Having taken the long-term decisions to achieve and sustain low inflation and economic stability, the task of this pre-budget report is to meet and master the global economic challenge, making the critical decisions to secure Britain's long-term economic future.
And it was the year in which Walmart, the undisputed master of global retailing, admitted that it is facing lower revenues due to income pressures: In other words, the working poor – Walmart's target demographic, which also includes many of its own employees – are being forced to watch their pennies and, consequently, are spending fewer of them at Walmart.
I recently completed a masters in global health sciences at UCSF.
We learn that Reger regarded the old masters as "global decorators".
"[Before the crisis] we had fashioned an account of ourselves as a nation of Nietzschean supermen, rising beyond themselves to become the improbable masters of global finance," said the writer and journalist Ragnar Tómas.
Duke Anesthesiology has collaborated with DGHI in the development of a two-year fellowship program that will allow candidates to spend approximately half of their time in the field, and the remainder in the classroom at Duke earning their masters in global health.
