In fact, in a highly competitive world, Hewlett Packard managed to save 150,000 jobs by sacrificing those 30,000.

The preschool education program Mai chose is a highly competitive one.

University education was highly competitive because of the limited places available at universities.

Its major sub sectors increasingly, high value added (per person employed) services are highly competitive and growing.

Small and vulnerable economies must not be abandoned to their fate in the current highly competitive market.

The EU s most competitive economies are the most innovative and energy efficient, with the most highly educated workforces.

World trade is highly imbalanced.

That something is being competitive in world markets.

Innovation and invention were clearly the key to ensuring a rapid pace of industrialization in a highly competitive global arena.

The largest and best equipped farms are highly competitive, in the sense that they can produce for markets at a lower cost.

Special measures have been adopted to prevent the brain drain , including favourable working conditions and facilities, as well as highly competitive salaries for university researchers.

In the aftermath of the international financial crisis of 1997 1998, many emerging markets found themselves through currency depreciation, rapid productivity gains, or both highly competitive.

Pessimists see conflict of one kind or another as more or less inevitable, and adopt a highly wary and competitive approach to the conduct of international relations.

We are highly regarded around the world as an excellent export base.

Abe is now confronting the legacy of this strategy domestic polarization between highly educated and unskilled labor, between competitive and declining sectors, and between urban and rural areas.

By contrast, countries like China and India, which avoided a surge of capital inflows, managed to maintain highly competitive domestic currencies, and thereby kept profitability and investment high.

The bottleneck at the end of the primary cycle is the result of the highly competitive examination systems operating at Class 6 which acts as a screening mechanism.

In a highly integrated world of highly volatile prices and volumes, flexibility also implies the capacity to intervene and actively manage the exchange rate.

The EU s most competitive economies are the most innovative and energy efficient, with the most highly educated workforces. Indeed, for Europe, cheap is not the answer quality and innovation are.

In a highly complex and diverse world, the EU stands out for its homogeneity.

It was highly influential in the advancement of modern cryptography in the academic world.

The foreign partner supplied capital, technology, entrepreneurial expertise, and in many cases, products and services of world competitive quality.

UNIDIR's increasingly competitive programme brings young researchers from all over the world to work at UNIDIR for short periods.

The notion of competitive, private markets as fundamental to well functioning economies had been highlighted at the 2005 World Summit.

Ethnic relations in this highly diverse nation are as good as they are anywhere in the world.

The world economy was highly integrated in 1914, but economic interdependence declined during the next three decades.

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Finally, South Africa, with its world class banking sector and internationally competitive construction companies, can supply services to the Chinese market.

The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report currently ranks Switzerland's economy as the most competitive in the world, while ranked by the European Union as Europe's most innovative country.

Membership of the World Trade Organization has helped to bind China to highly sophisticated pan Asian production networks.

First, the crisis and Great Recession of 2008 2009 were a wake up call. While Chinese export industries remain highly competitive, there are understandable doubts about the post crisis state of foreign demand for Chinese products.

Ultimately, in today s complex and interlinked world, even the most competitive economies need a helping hand as they climb the global ladder.

Is Finance Too Competitive?

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(a) Competitive entry process

Meanwhile, a highly interdependent and (now) less dynamic world economy has been limiting the scope for external growth drivers.

Malaria continues to rage throughout the tropical world, despite the availability of highly effective measures for prevention and treatment.

But conservatives have argued that in order to remain competitive in a global world, taxes must be cut and the welfare state reduced.

The European Union's highly touted Lisbon Declaration of a few years ago, which proclaimed that Europe would become the world's most competitive region by 2010, appears laughable to Americans, whose productivity gains seem to scale new heights constantly.

The establishment by the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency of eight distribution centres for Brazilian products abroad would help to insert Brazilian industrial goods which were highly competitive in terms of price, quantity and reliability into the international market.

An analysis of the horizontal implications revealed that the transaction raised no serious competition concerns as the market for the provision of these services was highly competitive and the merged entity would not enjoy a large market share.

Most policymakers still focus on GDP, because, while not perfect, it is strongly correlated with highly prized real world outcomes.

Iran will continue to threaten the world community that it will use its oil weapon, but this is highly unlikely.