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Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. Martin Jacques
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would elevate the status of Beijing into that of a civilized capital, and make it fit to stage a 'civilized Olympics' in 2008. We certainly do not want to see the farce of the Olympic flag flying over a city in which a corpse is worshiped. Mao Zedong
beijing bush days question
There is no question that Beijing would want to do more, ... Do they want to do something 'big' just two days before Bush arrives in Beijing? Frank Gong
beijing
What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.
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Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.
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send a strong signal to Beijing that Congress will not sit idly by while China's mercantilist trade policy injures U.S. employers and costs us jobs.
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The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity. Shashi Tharoor
beijing china extent move pressure raise rhetoric ultimately yuan
But what's more interesting is the U.S.-China deficit, especially with what's going on in Beijing just now. It's going to put a lot of pressure on the U.S. to get China to move (further on yuan flexibility), and to the extent that they don't, that's going to raise protectionist rhetoric in Congress, which I think is ultimately dollar-negative.
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But it's for sure this is not going to make Beijing make any meaningful concessions under pressure.
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The problem with the classical theory is that you could use any combination of particles to make the black hole -- protons, electrons, stars, planets, whatever -- and it would make no difference. There must be billions of ways to make a black hole, yet with the classical model the final state of the system is always the same.
billions dollars enterprise magnitude orders stop time worth
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness. Tim Bray
billions itself life plant
Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet. Louie Schwartzberg
billions businesses pay state taxes
There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.
billions except familiar happening
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people. Seth Shostak
billions broke digital mid millions orders pages society spread web
When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses. John Battelle
billions country dollars spending
We're spending billions of dollars on a country that doesn't want us there. Sandra Taylor
billions contribute pay people
Let these people get their education. Don't criminalize them. They pay taxes, and they contribute billions to the economy.
billions china developing dollars lose unless
Unless something is done about China in the Doha round, the developing world will lose tens of billions of dollars in exports.
control determined forces hopefully market supply
We have no control over price, which is determined by the market forces and refiners. We're eliminating the supply shortage, and hopefully that will stabilize prices.
control grandma internet lines system talking works
We have no control over lines that are being used for the Internet or someone's talking with grandma for an hour. This showed the system works as it should.
control dollar forms general goes local matching qualify state
We have no control of the money, it goes into the state general fund. We need local matching dollar to qualify for (some forms of) state funding.
control message quality sent shown ton
We've shown a ton of grit, a ton of character. We didn't have a lot of quality chances, but we got in control play. We sent a message that we were going to come, we were going to be relentless. Lindy Ruff
control extreme wing
The extreme right wing won, once again. That is only one part of the party, but they control the party.
control fact
The fact is that we just don't have control over those assets, and we're never going to,
control criminals cyber fact means seek
The fact is that cyber criminals are opportunistic and will seek any means to take control of users' systems.
control growth impact moving pains people reality wish
The reality is that we can't control where people are moving into. There are pains with the growth. I wish growth didn't have an impact on families, but it does. Doug Wilson
control learn left
There is a lot left to learn and get under control and document.
dollars raw-materials plowing
He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions. Charles Edison
dollars donald taken
The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.
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The reality is, we can't sustain ourselves with property tax dollars because the state is taking so much money away from counties, Tom Tryon
dollars initial shall
We shall make an initial injection of 50,000 U.S. dollars into the project.
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Once you make a studio 700 million dollars or so, or whatever the insane number is, then they finally seem to trust you, no matter how off-the-wall your project is. Shia LaBeouf
dollars vote enough
I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote. Brian Wilson
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We know for a fact that there's a lot of medical expense dollars leaving Brookings County. A lot of them were already Sioux Valley patients, quite honestly, and they were driving to Sioux Falls.
dollars hiv cost
Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales. David Mixner
dollars rich made
I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it. Cher
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We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.
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Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.
expenses tempting
It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense Frederic Bastiat
expenses gentleman lives question word
When we say of a gentleman that he lives elegantly on nothing a year, we use the word "nothing" to signify something unknown; meaning, simply, that we don't know how the gentleman in question defrays the expenses of his establishment.
expenses medical people spend wild
Retiree medical expenses are the big wild card. Most people will probably spend a lot more on medical expenses when they retire.
expenses percent
Expenses are going up 5 percent a year, but revenues are going up about 1 or 2 percent a year. How long can that go on?
expenses living paid
But she paid for her child's living expenses and schooling.
expenses living pay traveling
There is really no justification to pay for any living or traveling expenses at that level, particularly now that he is in retirement.
expenses hard reduce worked
We have worked very hard to reduce expenses through all the units.
saying-less balance would-be
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors. Charles Caleb Colton
saying seen treasury
We've seen this movie before. What Treasury is saying is pretty much of a rerun of what it said back in May.
saying skirt
The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not. Anna Kendrick
saying-goodbye desire lasts
They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. Jane Austen
saying
We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.
saying
We're saying if you've demonstrated success, you don't have to do as much paperwork.
saying time tone tried turn
We've tried to tone it down as much as possible. But every time you turn around, someone's saying something else about it.
saying-no offensive said
Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass. Daniel Handler
saying waiting
What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,