It's downtowns becoming ghost towns.

Do you often go on business trips?

Do you often go on business trips?

The Mafia uses legitimate business operations as a front.

India s business engagement in Africa attracts mixed opinion.

Likewise, passenger air transport is dominated by business travel.

Years of dictatorship and sanctions decimated Iraq's business and professional classes.

They are uniform red and white, brightly lit, clean and businesslike.

Sometimes, there is even a market for people dinners with celebrities and business breakfasts are sold under the hammer, too.

In their attempts to affect public policy, business organizations influence government personnel, as well as legislators.

Central bankers pronouncements are of interest to businesspeople especially in the financial sector and businesspeople are of interest to advertisers.

As a result, the market for books has dramatically expanded and publishers have been forced to change their entire business strategies.

Apart from the average date, there are also business meetings, and even more 'exclusive lots' (with celebrities and businessmen), now appearing on the site.

On the Yes side are all of the main political parties, trade unions, the business community, and a broad network of civil society groups.

Prices are increasing, more transactions are being conducted in cash, and more dubious business figures are arriving from around the world.

Of course, news organizations operate as businesses, and defying powerful governments can be a bad business strategy.

Gone were the khaki suits and militaristic paraphernalia, replaced by business suits and proper conference IDs for delegates.

That is one reason that businesspeople in so many parts of the world are demanding clear and consistent environmental policies.

What is interesting is that Indian businesspeople no longer dwell on what India s government needs to do.

But, given the high speed data transmission capacities of current telecommunications and information technology, it is now possible to reduce business travel significantly.

But this time, as business leaders shared their experiences, one could almost feel the clouds darkening.

Ukraine s business barons want not only to develop their empires within the safety of a legitimate free market framework, but also to invest in the EU.

Piracy, however, should not be used to tar an entire country s economy or business structures as criminal. It should, instead, be regarded as a problem found almost universally in countries undergoing the earliest stages of development.

Putin is not seen as the bad guy, he is seen as a Russian ruler disciplining a dubious business political interest.

Piracy, however, should not be used to tar an entire country s economy or business structures as criminal.

The most stable form of financing, foreign direct investment, has the additional benefit of bringing in new technologies and methods.

Countries that offer world class infrastructure, high skill staff, and simple business rules may be well entitled to ask companies to pay a commensurate tax in return.

Business organizations in many countries have a unique opportunity to step in and promote reform in order to help reshape the structure of their business environments.

Silvio Berlusconi, who becomes President of the European Union on July 1 st , is a man of vision who once loved risk and whose business bets paid off big.

The opposition comprises most of Venezuela's organized civil society, not only business, but also trade unions, professional associations, and NGOs.

While NATO and the EU have improved their working relations, more steps need to be taken to eliminate mistrust, unhealthy competition, and information sharing blockages.

In sum, the pragmatists would limit Iranian American dealings, keeping them focused on an agenda that largely reflects Iran's domestic concerns.

These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic commonwealth.

While we shouldn't exaggerate the Internet's benefits, it can reduce business costs, increase access to information, and create opportunities.

Business and financial interests, in particular, are delighted with the outcome, crowing about the bonanza about to be unleashed as Congress liberalizes India s economy further.

Indeed, one characteristic sign of economic vitality is the frequency of bankruptcy, for business failures indicate a willingness to gamble and take risks on innovation.

The business cycles of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush share strong similarities and are different from pre 1980 cycles.

Moreover, most markets for services securities trading, wholesale and retail distribution, business services, and local utilities remain sheltered from competition and free circulation rules.

As a default would demand a change in the currency involved in private contracts, business partners from other EU countries would surely sue, legal uncertainties would drag on and on, and an exiting country s trade with its main trading partners would be impaired for years to come.

These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic commonwealth.

Each spring, the job hunting season starts and Japanese students in their third year of university start preparing by suiting up, attending seminars and job fairs, and having bouts of soul searching.

Though Ayatollah Khomeini s Islamic revolution in 1979 disrupted Israel s old alliance with Iran, the two countries continued to conduct business with America s blessing.

A person's entry into blacklists of the American Department of the Treasury entails blocking his assets in the U.S. and banning business contacts with him by persons living in the United States.

Though Ayatollah Khomeini s Islamic revolution in 1979 disrupted Israel s old alliance with Iran, the two countries continued to conduct business with America s blessing. The Iran Contra affair of the 1980 s, through which Israel supplied arms to the Islamic Republic in its war against Iraq is a case in point.

Its purpose is to provide authoritative new evidence concerning how governments and businesses can achieve stronger economic growth while simultaneously addressing climate risks.