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WITH a seven-point lead in the polls a few days before voting, the race for America's presidency is now Barack Obama's to lose.

The boss of one of America's biggest banks says that, if he were faced with Swiss-style capital surcharges, he would try to move.

Believe it or not, it's possible through a company called Vacations To Go, one of America's Largest Cruise Agencies.

It stocked the shelves with food shipped in from America's East Coast and people were told it was just a film set.

But Europe is no longer the front line and America's focus is shifting to the Pacific.

America's airlines seem to share this lack of enthusiasm for the idea. Both United and Delta say their customers do not want it.

He made a strong pitch for America's own vision of religious freedom, and called for understanding of the historical suffering of Jews.

But a year ago America's top economic policymakers faced a momentous decision: whether or not to let Lehman Brothers fail (see article).

This seems to be especially true in Europe: the continent's labour markets are gummier than America's and services are more regulated.

It's a view that no doubt would have been met with astonishment in Arab capitals, where America's image remains largely negative.

America's attitude to race has changed: how much it has changed will be measured by the Bradley Effect, or lack of it.

He said he knows America's European partners will breathe a sigh of relief if an agreement can be reached with Moscow.

If Mr McCain were to become president, he would also be well advised to restrain his instincts and redefine America's mission in Iraq.

John Dewey, one of America's most profound philosophers, phrased it a bit differently. Dr.

Obama said that motor manufacturing was "an emblem of America's spirit" and a "source of deep pride" on which the nation was built.

The White House says America's employment picture is worse than the Obama administration had anticipated just a few months ago.

The best that America's reviled politicians could say was that the deal was a "down payment" on serious future spending cuts.

You could turn up a something special, like the elusive Bigfoot Ant, North America's rarest ant species.

America's economy grew more quickly partly because its population rose by almost 1% a year, thanks to immigration and a higher birth rate.

And so far it seems to be working: America's unions are poised for an internal debate more wide-ranging than any they have had in decades.

But he said al-Qaida does not represent Islam, and America's commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.

"So-called comparative effectiveness research" is central to any rational attempt to deal with America's fiscal problems.

America's free-market capitalism has always been a model for the rest of the world.

In the United States subprime lending was a relatively small bit of the mortgage market-itself just apart of America's financial markets.

The area is almost all rain forest and until recent decades was one of South America's least populated and most inaccessible areas.

Interestingly, America's ethnic composition seems to have little consistent economic impact.

BP would be (a bit) better off had it had more American directors to throw at America's media wolves.

It is hard to see how China can be blamed for job losses when America's unemployment rate (4. 5%) is close to its lowest for decades.

The crisis that began a year ago may yet mark another turning-point in the relationship between America's politicians and its central bank.

In the dreamland will have another stretch of world to wait you to open, not the far place, will be able to have America's blue sky.

Jekyll Island, one of Georgia's Golden Isles, was one of the most exclusive resorts for America's richest families during the Gilded Age.

It plans to pepper some of America's fastest-growing states with Fresh & Easy local groceries at a rate of three a week.

indeed, they might have come from America's Democratic Party, or even from the op-ed pages of a respectable business daily.

So it is with some sadness that I note that America's age of indulgence seems to be giving way to an era of frugality.

He stressed the common ground between the west and Islam, saying that "Islam has always been a part of America's story" .

WHETHER America's famed philanthropic tradition is all it is cracked up to be will become much clearer during the next few years.

America's policy of trade with Britain and France continued to be a serious issue.

The action, the sense of can-do, is so different from the political and economic paralysis of America's age of constraint.

Finally, Guatemala is one of Latin America's most rural societies, which makes it a nightmare for pollsters.

China's choice of role, says Jim Steinberg, America's deputy secretary of state, is "the great question of our time" .

America's Bubble Economy told readers it would "look at how the bubbles are a part of the long-term evolution of the economy and society. "

Some investors, no doubt, see faster growth on the way; but a growing number are worried about the size of America's fiscal hole.

This seems to be an admission that America's emphasis on spreading democracy has not gone exactly as planned.

In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that Albert Stubblebine III was at the heart of America's military machine.

Sadly, what was forgotten amid the Bush-era hubris was that America's edge always has been as much moral and economic as military.

He made the most of the opportunity to tell some of America's leading bosses how well his firm was doing.

On the surface it appears to be in conflict with America's much touted democracy, but this is not the case.

But the worry is whether America's exporters, battered by years of foreign competition, would be able to do so quickly.

Transparency did at least take a small step forwards at Wells Fargo, America's fourth-biggest bank by assets and its most taciturn.

America's financial system is now dominated by a few dozen firms that are assumed to be too big to fail.

It has already proved to be vital to entrepreneurs and America's small businesses, which generate up to 80 per cent of new jobs in the US.

Mr Lyons is hardly the only Southerner who would be glad to see the end of America's 45-year embargo on trade with Cuba.

All this does not take into account America's need to keep forces ready to deal with unexpected developments elsewhere.

And if he were Chinese, would there have been a "real fear" about America's reaction?

He then went on to say how "mind-boggling" are the capabilities of America's National Security Agency and its British counterpart, GCHQ.

That the world remains so dollar-centric, given America's shrinking share of world output, is something of an anomaly.

PERSONAL greed is often the explanation given for the disastrous forays of the world's banks into America's subprime mortgages.

At the end of the Vietnam War, there was a thriving commentary around the world on the idea of America's economic decline.

The stakes are just as high for AIG, and for America's Treasury and Federal Reserve, to which it owes $132 billion.

America's early leaders knew that trying to end slavery probably would split the nation in two.

Pennsylvania Avenue, America's "Main Street, " was one of the earliest streets constructed in the federal city.

After such a stirring speech, the world waits to see if America's new president's actions will match his lofty words and ideals.

Meanwhile, the expected meeting of minds between America's newly invigorated trustbusters and Europe's also seems to have been put on hold.

WikiLeaks responded to Bank of America's announcement with a Twitter message urging supporters to stop doing business with the bank.

Nowadays, nobody is trying to improve America's relations with the Middle East by marrying off the Bush twins to Arab princes.

The crucial difference was that, like America's test, the second Chinese one did not create any mess.

But another sort of nightmare is also beginning to trouble America's conservatives.

It may grumble about the dollar's dominance in the global trading system, but it has no desire to pull the rug from under America's economy.

Bigger airlines might be able to cut overcapacity and reverse the underinvestment that has plagued America's carriers.

America has always been a beacon to the peoples of the world when we ensure that the light of America's example burns bright.

Ken Salazar, America's secretary of the interior, said he gave his approval only after making adjustments to parry all objectors.

Reaffirming America's role as the global engine of scientific discovery and technological innovation has never been more critical.

America's "political will to engage with Asia and its influence" , he writes, seem to be waning.

But America's environmental concerns seem to outweigh China's at the moment. And Old Li, for one, is eager to help.

America's General Mills seems to have got Yoplait instead and the French government partly blames Lactalis and its tactics.

He said Pakistan will not be "intimidated" and declared that "the war on terrorism is as much Pakistan's war as it is America's. "

"They share my pragmatism about the use of power, and my sense of purpose about America's role as a leader in the world, " he said.

Once upon a time this was called the American Dream. Nowadays it might be called America's Fitful Reverie.

two out of every five men died or are disabled building the skyscrapers of America's new cities.

"I did not tell Bank of America's management that the Federal Reserve would take action against the board or management, " he said.

The odd thing is that America's politicians should find this attitude so hard to understand: their sentiments on the matter are the same.

And the gloom cannot be magicked away by America's central bankers, as euphoric investors seemed to think back in September.

Meanwhile, negotiations over a "grand bargain" to eliminate America's gaping deficits seem to hinge on sweeping tax reform.

But how much of that is America's fault?

A few days later at a cabinet meeting, Roosevelt spoke strongly for a "legal" explanation of America's rights in the Panamanian straight.

a place where some of the planet's most influential executives let it all hang out in the rarified air of one of America's ski resorts.

Disputes over the northern city of Kirkuk remind America's war planners of how much remains to be done.

If America's leaders had not been too busy to look, they would have found much more to worry about there.

Now that America's housing market is so poorly, the fear of infection elsewhere is spreading like a bad case of the flu.

The White House is starting to confront the "hard choices" that come from trying to pare down America's commitments overseas.

If America's leaders had not been too busy to look, they would have found much more to worry about there.

Now that America's housing market is so poorly, the fear of infection elsewhere is spreading like a bad case of the flu.

The White House is starting to confront the "hard choices" that come from trying to pare down America's commitments overseas.

Symptomatic of this was the Ford Taurus, once America's bestselling car. By early 2000 it had been reduced to a little-loved rental vehicle.

Who wouldn't want to see America's sweetheart get blackmailed for sex and try to institutionalise her boyfriend and cheat on her husband?

Just as England's difficulty was once Ireland's opportunity, so America's difficulty might have been China's.

These wonderful childhood experiences instilled in me a strong passion for America's landscapes, cultures, and people.

Stevia is one of the growing number of products trying to tame America's sweet tooth.

"THAT Used To Be Us" is the title of one of the latest books to lament America's decline from its former self.

At South America's southern tip, the missing BlackBerrys are almost ready to roll off the line.

The strongest proof of America's feelings for Israel is all the inconvenience America puts up with for the relationship's sake.

America's mess, even if it has already led to the demise of famous Wall Street firms, is far from finished.

Bush admitted that, growing up in Texas, he had not been as open to elements of America's diverse culture.

One reason for America's angst was that the growth of federal spending on R&D slowed significantly with the end of the cold war.

Still, it is possible that the biggest change in America's Asian diplomacy will be to put global warming near the heart of it.

It was the last grand station to be built before America's passenger railways went into what you might call terminal decline.

But she disdains America's profligacy just as much as she does that of Greece and the other debt-burdened eurozone economies.

Senator Hoar spoke strongly against the treaty. He said that taking over the Philippines would be a dangerous break with America's past.

There was a time when America's economic trousers were supported by what is now loosely referred to as the Rust Belt.

Compare then and now: a year after the credit crisis began last August, America's economy seemed to be standing up well.

The information that such techniques produce is often tainted, and the damage that they do to America's image around the world is immense.

No one knows by how much, or for how long, America's economy will be weighed down.

But even if he supported some of right-wing America's attacks on "liberals" , he would certainly have objected to its choice of words.

George Mitchell, America's envoy, keeps his cards to his chest, unable so far to point to any gains.

CONTRARY to expectations, Jeffrey Skilling did not receive America's longest-ever jail term for a white-collar crime this week.

After the expulsion of America's ambassadors to Venezuela and Bolivia, Mr Correa hastened to say that he would not be following suit.

In the best of times, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve pretended as if the dollar were America's currency alone.

But NATO's agreement to sign up to much of America's plans for missile defence in Europe was a blow for the Russian leader.

the methods used to assess an infection by America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention lag an outbreak by a week or two.

Yet the precise meaning of America's constitution is often unclear.

THE prediction that Isador Feinstein Stone, America's most celebrated investigative journalist, made to his wife proved right.

Google, as you know, has a well-known history of infringing on the privacy rights of America's Internet users.

In 2009, he said the financial crisis showed America's decline.

Next comes the question of America's overall defence posture, and that of its allies.

Half a century ago, the prosperity of America's middle class was one of democratic capitalism's greatest triumphs.

For now, however, China's GDP is still less than half that of America's.

How much will the financial crisis hurt America's economic potential?

Yet none of America's leaders are trying to steer the ship back northward.

All this has brought people flooding in and made Texas America's fastest-growing state.

For the moment, we all mourn the passing of one of America's pre-eminent artists, and I myself mourn the loss of a dear and beloved friend.

Defense Minister Fitzgibbon told reporters Saturday he would like the option of buying America's state-of-the-art F-22 Raptor fighter jet.

For America's existing allies in the region, that means helping to usher them out even when their successors are something of a gamble.

But they did not think it had much to do with America's national security.

IT HAS been a long time since comments on the economy by an official of America's Federal Reserve comments could be described as cheerful.

There was a time when ambitious foreigners had little choice but to put up with America's restrictive ways.

It was one of several appearances designed to show off America's economic strength and set out the president's priorities.

And the job of cleaning up America's hazardous waste is now projected to cost up to a trillion dollars over the next 30 years.

Besides, the rate gap between emerging markets and America's Federal Reserve is already wider now than it was a year or two ago.

On foreign policy this long-standing member of NATO, with an army second in size only to America's, has always been a bulwark of the West.

The purpose of this article is to propose a set of ideas for reinventing America's health care system, one community at a time.

But America's leaders do not seem to think Americans are ready for straight talk about energy.

Beijing looks as if it is formulating an east Asian version of America's Monroe Doctrine.

But whatever they say in formal speeches, America's leaders are clearly beginning to have their doubts, and rightly so.

America's new dollar policy may be less absurd than its old one, but it is still a bit of a muddle.

America's, said one of its founders, should be "a government of laws and not of men" .

President Bush says he does not know whether America's sagging economic performance meets the technical definition of a recession.

Within just a few years, the Internet could capture 5% of America's retail market, with other rich countries likely to follow in its wake.

Unlike the Soviets, the Chinese appear not to be trying to match the size and capability of America's huge fleet.

They were joined by the children of undistinguished WASP families from America's small towns, suburbs, and tenements.

He called America's bond with Israel "unbreakable" and said the tragic history that led to a Jewish homeland cannot be denied.

The president said he sees the U. S. athletes as ambassadors of liberty, who will represent America's love for freedom in Beijing.

Past, future, and present Earlier generations might be amazed to hear about the problems of America's decreasing resources.

South Africa has seen political protests against apartheid, but not the sort of race riots and pogroms America's South suffered from.

Mr. Obama called Japan one of America's strongest allies and said the U. S. is offering whatever assistance is needed.

Hank Paulson, now America's treasury secretary, is said to have visited China at least 70 times when he was the firm's chief executive.

Furtel said a meltdown at a nuclear power plant does not always result in a massive release of radiation, as America's own history shows.

AMERICA'S federal debt is so vast that it is hard to think about: a few billion here or there seems to make little odds.

The president said King Day is an opportunity to renew America's deep desire to be a nation of promise, justice and opportunity for all.

China's cheap currency and vast trade surplus, which matches up nicely with America's gargantuan trade deficit, are easy to blame.

America's politicians are not the only ones to have fingered speculators for the feverish rise in the price of oil and other raw materials.

I do not know much about it, but I think some of America "s best young men served in this war. "

(Germany is still singing a version of that song. ) But by holding fast to the dollar, Germany ended up importing America's laxity.

It would if it struck just as America's economy was slowing sharply and as weakness was afflicting both western Europe and Japan.

A delegation from America's navy, a big client, sat down in Sun's Silicon Valley offices.

So I decided to set up a different kind of foundation, one that would focus on America's key fiscal-sustainability challenges.

And I want them to all here that same message: That's the kind of excellence we've got to promote in all of America's schools.

Greenspan said the debt will eventually constrain the U. S. economy and erode America's place on the world stage.

In the opinion of many scientists George Bush, America's retiring president, was just such a politician.

From America's point of view, what was supposed to be a showpiece of Arab democracy gifted by Uncle Sam is becoming a fiasco .

He also forecast a recovery in the housing market "within a year or so" and that "America's best days lie ahead. "

The implication was that the 20th century had been "America's Atlantic Century, " which is now over.

Europe's business cycle tends to lag America's by a quarter or two.

America's new president arrives with a distinction shared by perhaps none of his predecessors.

"This will also be America's first wartime presidential transition in four decades, " he said.

Some of this divergence is inevitable: even to the casual observer, India's economy has always been rather different from America's.

The change would also dilute America's oversight of its own standards, he said.

America's top public health officer wants to see more changes like this.

The wind industry, meanwhile, is hoping that America's government will come to its aid.

Another big factor appeared to be the threat of deflation that loomed over America's economy as consumer prices slipped.

For all the coverage of America's war in that region, it was a subject he thought needed more investigation.

The downgrade was not taken as adding any new information to the question of America's creditworthiness.

There was no sign of weakness during America's previous recession, in 2001, he notes, though the industry was smaller than it is now.

The bad news was that, oh yeah, the war effort really needed all of America's nylon for parachutes and tires and flak vests.

After Arnold betrayed the American cause, he publicly cited America's alliance with Catholic France as one of his reasons for doing so.

More than any other action that we have taken, the power of America's example has helped spread freedom and democracy abroad.

There was a stumble in emerging markets this summer when America's subprime crisis began to unfold.

Some of America's senior trade experts are very worried that this is just the beginning.

The reality was that President Washington broke America away from the near-slavery of England, but ended up keeping America's own slaves.

If America's Fed had done this and worried a bit more about bubbles, the world might not be in such a mess.

AMERICA'S mid-term elections are turning into a referendum on the role of the state, and George Bush junior's tax cuts are the litmus test.

Samuel Huntington was one of America's greatest political scientists.

Taxpayers in effect stand behind such schemes, just as they eventually had to stand behind America's savings and loan industry.

America's military has shown that it is prepared to deploy sound to its tactical advantage.

And the Democrats will pay a steep price if they are seen to be trying to sabotage America's hopes of success in Iraq.

Meanwhile, Mr Obama is trying to save the planet and reshape America's health-care system.

Governments hate this sort of anarchy and America's, in particular, is considering regulation (see article).

America's sex-offender laws are the strictest of any rich democracy. Convicted rapists and child-molesters are given long prison sentences.

It seems to be all but obligatory to end books on America's role in the world on a note of sugary optimism.

America's deepening recession is slamming China's export sector, just as it has everywhere else in Asia.

"By showing respect for your competitors, you will demonstrate America's respect for the world, " he said.

All this means that grappling with entrenched joblessness deserves to be far higher on America's policy agenda.

In terms of foreign policy, America's allies, especially in Europe, would also be unwise to start celebrating, for two reasons.

America's vision of a secure, stable, prosperous 21st century world has at its heart a strong partnership with a rising India.

One of Latin America's most advanced economies, Chile has been a darling on Wall Street for its free-market ethos.

Texas's importance as America's leading trading state, and one of its main distribution centres, is bound to grow.

The Blue Ridge Parkway, also known as "America's favorite drive, " provides beautiful scenery any time of the year.

To be sure, even those adding jobs are hiring far fewer than would be needed to put America's 14. 1 million unemployed back to work.

It was an empirical account of America's first serious business cycle, the panic of 1819.

Joe Arpaio, nicknamed "America's toughest sheriff" , is a strong proponent of a crackdown against illegal immigrants.

America's recovery from a balance-sheet recession was always bound to be sluggish and fragile.

As they note, trade imbalances, both China's surplus and America's deficit, have recently been much smaller than they were a few years ago.

He said immigrants have greatly contributed to America's prosperity and national character, and will continue to do so.

The team at the Fitzgerald Auto Mall in Rockville, Maryland is on the front-lines of the battle to save America's car industry.

As America's foreign-policy " realists " such as Mr Baker and Henry Kissinger have long argued, talking to foes is often essential.

Worse, America's quantitative easing is now viewed as an update of the policies that marked the Great Depression.

Despite a year of sluggish growth, America's underlying prices have been rising uncomfortably fast.

Carrizo is regarded as one of South America's best young goalkeepers and Lazio will be desperate to take him on board this month.

But if he fails even to hint that Christians should be tolerated, he may find America's Congress increasingly loth to help bail him out.

The organization had already become one of America's largest home builders and was expanding into other countries.

Pick a local fishing hole or make a weekend out of it at some of America's best fishing spots.

Henceforth it will find it a lot harder to hide its belligerence behind America's unpopularity.

Critics say Frank Lloyd Wright was one of America's most creative architects.

Now all that remains is to remove the loopholes. On past experience, America's rich need not lose sleep over that.

He also said it was America's understanding that Mr Chen had not formally abolished the council.

America's course of action seems to be for the government to borrow and spend. This debt approach carries risks for all creditor nations.

The US could run out of money to pay its bills if America's major parties can't work out a deal soon.

In Mr Yan's view, China's outrage at North Korea's test is similar to that of France and Germany over America's invasion of Iraq in 2003.

The US deficit with China, America's most politically sensitive trade partner, continued to swell in June, rising to a 21-month high.

Maybe some of Canada's new bad-guy image on environmental issues is just a by-product of America's new green image.

You know, half of America's foundations have been created since I became president.

Just a short drive east of Saint Louis, and across the Mississippi into Illinois, is America's first city.

"America's dependence on such critical inputs as foreign labour, resources, capital and markets has never been greater, " he wrote.

Like a toffee apple with a maggot inside, the debt markets have been tainted by their links with America's subprime mortgage crisis.

If it is to become a middle-class society, Latin America's first priority must be to improve the quality of schooling.

But US exports to China are increasing 50% faster than with any other country, and China is now America's second largest export market.

Maybe it's time for a career change to one of these 10 fields from Money and PayScale. com's list of America's best jobs.

In fact, the Jubilee would be remembered as a decadent farewell toast to America's gilded age of invention.

Countries with dollar pegs are in effect importing America's looser monetary policy and with it inflationary pressure.

FROM the moment they entered the workforce in the 1960s, baby-boomers began to shape America's economy and politics.

That decision left the door wide open for white flight, and marked a constitutional limit for America's drive to integrate its schools.

America's generous subsidies for biofuel have increased the harvest of water-intensive crops that are now used for energy as well as food.

The bubbly asset prices, ever easier credit and cheap oil that fuelled America's age of consumerism are not about to return.

The least reformed part of America's intelligence system is not the CIA or the FBI, but the United States Congress.

Rebuilding America's future cannot be a Democratic or Republican political cause. It must be a national undertaking.

To others, it is in the midst of a structural change that could end up damaging America's ability to create the next Google or Microsoft.

The U. S. State Department says deep cuts to its budget proposed by Congress will undermine America's security and global leadership.

On this view America's credit boom and bust owed as much to a savings glut in Asia as to laxity at home.

America's adventure, immensely costly in terms of blood and treasure, turned into a debacle.

The shuttle was to be a multipurpose ship that would carry all of America's government and commercial cargoes into space.

Moreover, given the increasing diversity of America's population, the dangers of sectarianism have never been greater.