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If you wait until the upturn is obvious, you The island is bouncing back after its hard,
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country where your next opportunity Australia’s $18bn stimulus package focuses
lies? on infrastructure building projects; Indian IT Can we really build a world good for
industry ‘survives Satyam scandal’; Hong business and the environment?
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