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Economists love doing Argentina-U.S. comparisons because they are superficially similar in so many respects: both are made up largely of European immigrants, both developed their frontier regions rapidly in the 19th century as grain exporters with the development of railways and trans-oceanic shipping, both are located in temperate climates with large tracts of fertile land, etc.
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Not only will triple digit oil prices sever those trans-oceanic trade links through soaring transportation costs, but they will throw the U.S. economy back into recession.
Jeffrey Rubin: PIGS Don't Get to Burn Oil Jeffrey Rubin 2011
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Comcast is effectively a Tier 1 within the US, they only pay transit on the trans-oceanic links.
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She built her boat, the American Pearl, and earned a law degree as well as making her two trans-oceanic voyages.
Advance reader reviews of A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden Mcclure. 2010
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This philosophy is being tried across the dirty-energy spectrum, as in the case of trans-oceanic vessels (oil tankers included) fitted with what are essentiallyparasails.
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They shave about a quarter of the mileage off the trans-oceanic shipping routes that go through the Panama Canal, but the window of navigation is so narrow, because of ice, that the discovery of the Northwest Passage has proved to be commercially irrelevant — which makes the centuries-long search for it even more tragic and bitter.
Passage to Nowhere Michael J. Ybarra 2010
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They shave about a quarter of the mileage off the trans-oceanic shipping routes that go through the Panama Canal, but the window of navigation is so narrow, because of ice, that the discovery of the Northwest Passage has proved to be commercially irrelevant — which makes the centuries-long search for it even more tragic and bitter.
Passage to Nowhere Michael J. Ybarra 2010
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They shave about a quarter of the mileage off the trans-oceanic shipping routes that go through the Panama Canal, but the window of navigation is so narrow, because of ice, that the discovery of the Northwest Passage has proved to be commercially irrelevant — which makes the centuries-long search for it even more tragic and bitter.
Passage to Nowhere Michael J. Ybarra 2010
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The DEA says it was built for trans-oceanic drug trafficking.
Drug Submarine Seized By Authorities Near Ecuador-Colombia Border 2010
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To this day, you'll never see her wearing sweats on a trans-oceanic flight; she wears one of her "travel dresses."
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