Hints and tips:
...One French official said Paris believed Nato’s charter required the alliance to limit its geographic reach to the “north Atlantic”....
...GCSE results released in August showed a widening geographic divide, with pupils in the north-east recording the lowest share of top grades in England....
...“No longer is our alliance partner, the United States, the unipolar leader of the Indo-Pacific....
...Staying as we are today, or immediately seeking to join a military alliance such as Nato, are not the only options.”...
...They just lack the kind of local association networks, executives, the real geographic spread in order to field enough candidates....
...When Nato leaders gathered in Madrid this week, they were joined by heads of government from four nations far beyond the usual geographic scope of the transatlantic alliance: Japan, South Korea, Australia...
...But in a more heterodox system, building alliances will be key....
...Parts of the Midwest, as well as places like North Dakota and Montana, have also added a disproportionate number of jobs in the past year....
...North Dakota’s oil advocates make the argument for the rest of their state too....
...Meanwhile, Americans are frustrated with Europeans for hedging their bets between a tighter transatlantic alliance or a closer relationship with China. It doesn’t have to be this way....
...In April and May, I went on a 3,100-mile road trip across America’s oil, gas, and coal-producing regions, driving from North Dakota to the Gulf Coast, to hear from people whose voices don’t often make it...
...Fox said that Wyoming’s Republican-dominated House revenue committee this month voted down a bill that would have taxed large-scale solar farms by $1 a megawatt-hour, while North Dakota withdrew a bill that...
...The National Geographic in 2012 found that 40 per cent of Americans think stocking up on supplies or building a bomb shelter is a wiser investment than saving for retirement....
...But the US president has since changed his stance as the drop started to hit energy-producing states such as Texas, North Dakota and gas-rich Pennsylvania....
...But a prolonged price fall could spell economic trouble for energy-producing states such as Texas and North Dakota. Will prices keep falling?...
...“Some outside groups have already advocated certain sectors of the economy be excluded from the loans made available under the Cares Act,” a group of Republican senators, led by Kevin Cramer of North Dakota...
...Once again Qatar has defied the logic of its size and geographic situation....
...It took traders a few years to appreciate the magnitude of what fracking was unlocking in the shale fields of Texas and North Dakota....
...The geographic complementarity, with VW’s strength in China and Ford’s hold on North America, has also caused analysts to wonder whether the two could ever engage in a full merger....
...The fact the oil industry is largely centred in traditionally Republican states such as Texas and North Dakota means he does not need to spend too long worrying about their votes....
...The oil-dependent economies of Texas and North Dakota would bear the brunt of the hit, but it would also extend to other industries such as steelmaking, which has benefited from the boom in pipeline construction...
...(FT) South Korea's corporate giants tiptoe toward the North South Korea wants its corporate giants to invest in North Korea....
...Among the Democratic incumbents facing tough battles are Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota and Joe Donnelly in Indiana....
...Production is also rising in the Bakken formation of North Dakota, helped by the opening of the Dakota Access pipeline, which has improved the prices producers there can get for their oil....
...It is also more reliant on imported crude, with few easy ways available for transporting oil from the shale fields in Texas and North Dakota....
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