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  • Agence France-Presse 'By moving to this global-local strategy, I think we are 20 years ahead of them,' Philippe Crouzet says of the Chinese.

    From Exporter to Local Partner Adam Mitchell 2011

  • "By moving to this global-local strategy, I think we are 20 years ahead of them—and they are our competitors for the future."

    From Exporter to Local Partner Adam Mitchell 2011

  • Empirically, the chances of defusing a localized “proto-insurgency” are better than 9 in 10; yet the chances of defeating a full-blown global-local insurgency are less than even.

    "Countering Insurgency in the Muslim World/Rethinking U.S. Priorities and Capabilities" 2008

  • But the future of the entire world hinges on the global-local conflict in the Middle East and on the international economic order.

    Nathan Gardels: Global Reactions to Obama Victory from Moscow to Beijing to Muslim World 2008

  • In regard to your larger global-local question, I might also refer you to my recent post on this Pharnygula thread and to several other posts on the same topic along the same lines–mine on this topic is about the fifth or sixth post up from the bottom:

    Brits to teach controversy (or are they?) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Businesses, institutions, and organizations are all becoming significant players in the mobile arena along all points of the global-local axis, building into obsolescence.

    O'Reilly News O'Reilly Media 2010

  • While Neelakantan agrees that Indian garments do look nice on fuller bodies, the mix of global-local looks that most stylists now create need slim models with an almost absent bust.

    The Times of India 2010

  • It is through the global-local interchange that some answers begin to take shape; and the hope that poverty may be ultimately eradicated begins to transcend national boundaries, cultural barriers, and ethnic prejudices.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

  • The need to encompass India's place in the global order, to accommodate comparative studies, and to examine the global-local nexus led to a decision to alternate chapters that focus on India and are written by Indian authors with those tackling global concerns.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

  • It is a hybrid phenomenon that reveals and is revealed by a number of important political, economic, intellectual and psychological dualisms: global-local, north-south, material-cultural, fear-hope, control-vulnerability.

    Progressive Bloggers 2008

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