Effectively, Normandy depended economically more on maritime trade across the English Channel than on river trade on the Seine.

Blockages to world trade jeopardize global economic development.

The openness of Germany s markets makes them especially attractive to global trade.

Developed countries shifted from promoting growth to fighting inflation. World growth slowed dramatically (except in East Asia) and the growth of world trade was halved.

World growth slowed dramatically (except in East Asia) and the growth of world trade was halved.

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Third, the Euro area is about as open to international trade as the US.

The past three years have seen much less progress on freeing up world trade than almost any free trade advocate would have hoped.

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In 2009, we may see the first decline in global trade since 1982.

The IMF s lending resources have shrunk dramatically relative to world trade and income compared over the past 50 years.

Still, there is a long way to go to reconnect freer trade with citizenship and global solidarity.

In 1998, the UN estimated the total value of the illicit drug trade at 400 billion, or 7 of global trade.

With the emergence of truly global world trade over the ensuing century and a half, Asia s economic dominance withered.

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The narwhal is the unicorn of the sea.

And the new 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is aimed at boosting ocean based trade in East Asia and the Indian Ocean.

We need to maintain a stable, growing world economy with international trade rules that are truly development oriented the great expectation of the current (but so far frustrated) trade negotiations.

What is needed, therefore, is a pledge by governments to make global trade liberalization a much higher political priority.

In ten short years, the euro revolutionized the global economic environment, rising to the status of the world s second currency and rivaling the dollar as a medium for international trade and finance.

Agriculture has always presented the greatest challenge to free trade doctrine and its promise of empowering the poor, for it is one of the most distorted areas of global trade.

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Arad bay, in Muharraq.

Baby sea turtle in Zanzibar.

Please send this by sea mail.

They went to the maritime museum.

Seawater contains salt.

The arithmetic of global trade implies that the sum of all trade deficits equals the sum of all trade surpluses. If some countries, say, Japan and China, insist on running huge surpluses year after year, then other countries must run deficits.

Sticking to them would enhance the legitimacy of trade and put the world economy on a sounder footing.

Given the complexion of the US Democratic Party's key constituencies, this is not surprising.

The arithmetic of global trade implies that the sum of all trade deficits equals the sum of all trade surpluses.

And many countries have introduced minor and not so minor impediments to trade since WWII.

Yet there has been little forward motion in opening up world trade for nearly a decade.

NEW HAVEN The International Monetary Fund s October World Economic Outlook proclaimed that, Strong public policies have fostered a rebound of industrial production, world trade, and retail sales.

For the global economy, the malaise reflected in anemic trade growth calls for coordinated fiscal stimulus by the world s major economies.

The first is that there is no mechanism linking world trade rules to exchange rate movements.

Early 20th century In the years after World War I, the high prices enjoyed during the war fell with the resumption of international trade.

This explains growing concern about the role of trade in development, despite the obvious fact that increased global trade has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent decades.

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The loss of life to disasters at sea is staggering. The damage to the marine environment is far reaching.

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I like to swim in salt water.

My cousin serves in the Marines.

I wasn't seasick.