But midsized and smaller firms often manufacture mostly in America, even as they sell some of their output abroad.
They are midsized countries clinging to the military and diplomatic infrastructure of larger powers.
One example is the creation of Bpifrance, an agency to finance mainly small and midsized firms, for example by buying shares.
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Ford advertises as many jobs in software as many a midsized tech firm.
By the same token, the debt of two-thirds of the midsized firms in the survey was trading at 80% or more of its face value, suggesting that investors are not too worried about their health.
Yet the Scott Reefs also lacked herbivorous species such as parrotfish, though midsized predators, like snappers, were more abundant than in the Rowley Shoals.Dr Ruppert thinks that eliminating sharks means populations of the midsized predators they feed on rise and those predators' prey then suffer the consequences.
With the Socialists rooted in the public sector, and the Communist Party in ruins, the National Front is now the most popular electoral choice for the French working class.In the first round of municipal voting, the National Front could come first in some midsized towns such as Carpentras, Fréjus, Forbach or Hénin-Beaumont.
It was "like a spiffy midsized town in Iran", with parks, offices and buildings but no children.
Others have merged and lend less to midsized firms than their constituent parts once did.Among the reasons for this withdrawal are the managerial challenges of analysing the creditworthiness of small companies with none of the crutches that come from credit-rating agencies and the public data disclosed by larger firms.
The European Union, a bunch of midsized powers with lots of ideas about how the world should run its affairs notably over climate change and financial regulation should ponder Spain's lesson.
