Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues, |
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Although some of the company's problems can be attributed to weakness in the PC market and inventory reduction efforts, AMD also continues to lose ground to Intel in the [microprocessor] market. |
Although the company is executing in terms of cost control, we think margin contractions at the gross margin level will continue through the second quarter as well, which we had not factored in. |
Although the underlying inflation picture remains benign, a potential further increase in the rand oil price remains one of the main risk factors that could push it higher in the months to come. |
Although there were some very serious arguments during the talks ... still we agreed that these working-level talks were profitable, and we decided that we will arrange more talks in the future. |
Although we expect the economy to remain one of the fastest growing in the region in 2006, earnings growth is moderating. We find it difficult to argue for a further re-rating from these levels. |
Colin Powell (1937-) |
Colin Powell (1937-) |
America's story is one of expanding opportunity and suffrage, and one of our fundamental principles is that every eligible citizen is entitled to cast his or her vote and have that vote counted, |
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. |
Americans continue to buy Japanese, Korean and German cars in large numbers and more consumer goods from Asia, in addition to more expensive crude oil and refined petroleum products from abroad. |
Americans of every race and religion were touched by this storm, yet some of the greatest hardship fell upon citizens already facing lives of struggle: the elderly, the vulnerable, and the poor. |
An act of torture by a public official anywhere in the world is an offense under United Kingdom law. It becomes simply facile to argue that these offenses are a matter for Chile and no one else. |
An extensive network is the indisputable advantage that attracts foreign investors. The rural credit union, despite its relatively weak performance, is the last Shanghai-based bank up for grabs. |