The Commission held the view that the market for managed care services provided on a national scale is highly concentrated.

Outward FDI from developing countries is highly concentrated.

Oligarchic capitalism exists where power and money are highly concentrated among a few.

Traditionally, sovereign risk has been concentrated in emerging market economies.

As the report noted, the huge and highly concentrated banking sector s problems could quickly escalate to systemic proportions with serious economic repercussions.

(iii) remove difficult market entry conditions such as those emanating from concentrated and changing market structures, as well as very stringent and diverse product standards

The CDO market, however, was concentrated six or seven issuers controlled most of the market, and this market ended up representing 50 of the entire revenues to be gained through ratings.

As a result, religious interpretation previously, a highly decentralized function undertaken by various seminaries was concentrated in the hands of a political leader.

But, throughout the continent, market opportunities for consumer facing companies are concentrated more in cities than in particular countries.

The market allows the law of large numbers to work, whereas concentrated government support for a few favored firms undermines it.

Indeed, growth in many emerging market economies starting with China is highly dependent on retrenching advanced economies.

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

Carbon dioxide capture and storage is more commonly proposed on plants burning coal in oxygen extracted from the air, which means the is highly concentrated and no scrubbing process is necessary.

We are an open, transparent economy with a highly skilled workforce and a market of 500 million people on our doorstep.

Given the international preoccupation with China s economic success, the country is now a highly salient market to investors all over the world.

He concentrated on his studies.

She concentrated on one thing.

The stock market is the first logical place to look, as it is a highly leveraged investment and has a history of bubbles.

To the extent that banks and other highly leveraged financial institutions hold them, the bursting bubbles could cause bankruptcies and financial market breakdown.

Mittal is a strong but fragile company, for it is highly subject to the speculative waves of the global market for raw steel.

So far, unemployment has become increasingly concentrated in one hemisphere, while income and capital is concentrated in the other.

Through 30 years of reform, China has successfully completed the institutional transition from a highly centralized planned economy to a dynamic market based system.

They also stressed the need to be bold, frugal, and highly driven to succeed, as well as the ability to adapt to changing market conditions.

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.

These agreements lock out non banking entities from the highly lucrative market for migrant remittances from the African diaspora, which remain a key engine of growth.

Agriculture Agricultural production is concentrated on small farms.

UNIFIL operations remained concentrated along the Blue Line.

The silver lining is that there are many highly distinguished current and former policymakers out there, particularly from emerging market countries, who have seen this movie before.

At the time the industry was highly critical of the move, noting that there was little overlap between the two companies in terms of market or technology.

The crisis has affected both concentrated banking systems (for example, the UK and the Netherlands) and non concentrated systems (e.g., the US and Germany).

It seems highly doubtful that the tide of international opinion will turn against China to the extent that investors in general are seriously expected to shun the market.

Because financial institutions held much of these securities, their market values declined as well, leaving balance sheets in need of restructuring, particularly given their highly leveraged capital structures.

These were concentrated in the southern part of Finland.

Most of it is concentrated in the southern parts.

Basic assistance is concentrated at regional and district levels.

Improvement appears to be concentrated in Punjab and NWFP.

What remains highly uncertain, however, is whether an obviously overheating market can be cooled without sending America, and its main trading partners around the world, into an economic tailspin.

A decade of historically low interest rates has led to economic imbalances in favor of sectors that are highly leveraged the financial sector, the housing market, and private equity.

Instant coffee in a concentrated liquid form is also manufactured.

Norwegian space science activities are concentrated into relatively few areas.

These high quality products are purchased on middle and long term contracts, mainly by long time customers. Arcelor, one of the oldest steel manufacturers in the world, depends very little on the highly speculative world market for raw steel, and its workforce is (on average) highly qualified and stable.

In its early days, UMTS had problems in many countries Overweight handsets with poor battery life were first to arrive on a market highly sensitive to weight and form factor.

Monitoring of trends and developments in the competition law and policy area at the national and international levels, including the prevalence of anticompetitive practices or concentrated market structures, as well as measures taken by Governments to address these

All the surveys and studies conducted in Nicaragua, whether by the Government or by private institutions, indicate that poverty is highly concentrated in rural areas, which are home to 61.7 per cent of the country's non indigent poor population and 76 per cent of its indigent population.

The incentives to try to hack such accounts are obvious not only significant publicity for hackers, but highly lucrative profit opportunities from the almost inevitable stock market movements that will result.