Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

The patterns (of the virus) in Asia right now would not suggest that it would come over to North America this fall.

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.