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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
beijing
What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it. Robin Munro
beijing chinese exercise fact government hollywood mtv olympics power soft
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 cover flame games hope olympic people relay sacred taiwan torch
Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.
beijing congress costs employers idly policy send signal sit strong trade
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.
beijing chinese common cuisines dishes food great kinds originally originated serve street
They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds of constituencies. Beijing was the cuisine of officials. In Shanghai, that was the cuisine of wealthy merchants and industrialists. In Szechwan, the food of the common people. Many great Szechwan dishes originated in street stalls. Nicole Mones
beijing blue boring city hometown industry
My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines. Liu Wen
beijing case court decided drop prosecutor
The prosecutor decided to drop the case and the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court agreed.
beijing billion investing olympics pounds quarter
We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Richard Caborn
bring community otherwise services
We want to try to bring services to our community that would not otherwise be here.
bring company concept ramp roll somebody time
We want to take the concept as big as we can. To really ramp the company up and roll it out the way we want to, we really wanted to take some time and bring somebody in of this caliber.
bring candidates good neither people
The other two candidates are good people but neither one of them would bring real reform. John Shadegg
brings element entire grant hill locker looks positive room strong sustain team time
The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.
bring defense drive helping kick offense passing played score teams using weapons
The other teams I played on were more keyed in on defense. The defense was going to bring our offense and that was it. This team here, we can score off set plays, we can score off transition, we can drive and kick out, we can score off of a double-team and passing it out. We have a lot of weapons to play with. We're just using them out there and it's helping us score points.
brings family food power together
The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together. Vikas Khanna
bring justice needs pay son
The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebastian back, but I want justice done.
brings good pc personal together tool web
The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet. Bill Gates
bring guys reason worse
The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to. Chris Hernandez
china currently identify landscape looking parts
We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.
china forward looking performing
We are looking forward to performing in China for the first time.
china delicate future handled point relationship republic
We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship, Chuck Hagel
china concerns domestic enter focus introduced market next services
There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties. Alex Wong
china close cooperation networks preparing service
We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.
china close networks preparing service
We're in close co-operation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.
china difficult drive train utilize
We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.
china continue exchange gradual increase means premier rate
What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.
china ongoing remain
We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore, Julie Gerberding
city happening love prevent
We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.
city ideas listen local officials proposals state willing work
We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet. John Payne
city creates expect friday kansas league noon orders practice problems saturday squeeze suggestion trying
The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.
city decree given king sat
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
city last people sat
the people who sat comfortably in this city last week. Artur Davis
city desperate eliminate homes hurricane less philosophy point protecting spend threat time trying
The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.
city growing rio success
We are a vibrant, growing city with a lot to offer. I think success in Rio Rancho will be success for Albuquerque.
city comedians politics
There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night. Mike Birbiglia
city community helping indiana lowest property recognized tax west
West Lafayette has been recognized as having the lowest city property tax and recognized for helping the Indiana community grow.
delta pounds reason size wear weigh
W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for some reason I'm a heavyweight. Christina Ricci
delta earnings quite
With the Micron earnings quite a disappointment and the Delta outlook, technically we were very overbought on a short-term basis.
delta extremely listening management pilots telling tired
The pilots are telling us they are extremely disappointed in Delta management and are tired of listening to management?s demands.
delta engineers gulf land louisiana planet sinking southern stop unless
Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.
delta express hates issue needs pay proving
I think the Delta Express issue is proving to be intractable, ... ALPA hates the two-tier pay scale. Delta needs that, and needs more of it, if it's going to compete.
delta harder legitimate name race run thompson
The race in the Delta is going to be a legitimate wire-to-wire race. The Espy name is big over there. Thompson will have to run harder than he has in the past.
delta hesitant protection seek
That Delta attitude, it's been there a long time, it's what made them great, and its what made them hesitant to seek protection long ago.
delta five weakest
As a stand-alone carrier, Delta is the weakest of the Big Five (American, United, Delta, Continental, Northwest).
delta grasp northwest raises sale seems
Northwest seems to have a better grasp on what it's doing than Delta does. Delta raises fares and announces a sale at the same time. Northwest is making the adjustments they have to.
directors guts asks
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.' Alan Rickman
directors notches top-notch
Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work. Alan Alda
direct-action acting ifs
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. David Graeber
directors
Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often. Catherine Deneuve
director rather
To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story. Ludivine Sagnier
directors great looking opportunity variety work
What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.
directed movies
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened. M. Night Shyamalan
direction february four industry lincoln mercury moving pleased program similar since
We are pleased to see the industry moving in this direction. Just to give you a little history, we launched a similar program enhancement four years ago. Ford, Lincoln and Mercury CPO have been teamed with MSX International since February 2002.
direction hanging playing stage together
We've always been friends before we were even in a band. It's a good-natured feeling, playing together on stage every night. To us, hanging out is playing a show. We can read each other and know each other's moods, and we know the direction we're headed. But we also know nothing is set in stone.
directly fly measure water
We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume. Daniel Andrews
directly event related
We're going to do some investigating to see if this event was directly related to her employment.
directly led shooting steals terrific
Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done that all year. They're terrific open-court players.
directly glad good health pleased tv
She called me directly and is doing fine. We were glad to see her on TV this morning. She is in good health and we are pleased about that. Jim Carroll
directly greener recent represents success worked
She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, greener and better place to live. In fact, much of our community's recent success can be attributed directly to Janie.
directly dogs found helped homes past sheltered
Sheltered Paws has found homes for 12 dogs in the past two months. I directly helped with two. That's kind of how I look at it: If everyone does a little bit, collectively, we can make a big difference.
directly life songs tried whenever
Most of the songs I write are just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake. Rivers Cuomo
directly lifts lives whose
When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole. Thomas Perez
directly follow journals kept pointed related river runs san sights spaniards specific
Many Spaniards kept journals and pointed out some specific sights directly related to the San Pedro Valley. And the San Pedro River runs right through there. It would only make sense that they would follow the river.
flying trouble gregarious
Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously. Charles Dickens
flying answers pilots
Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact. Alan Bean
flying magic physics
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
fly guys hit hitting mean numbers power rather struggling
The power numbers really don't mean much to me. I thought we hit too many fly-ball outs today. I would rather see ground-ball outs. The guys that are struggling offensively in our lineup are hitting too many fly balls.
flying monkey
Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?
fly ford great invited los plane private quite work
Harrison Ford invited me to fly on his private plane to Los Angeles, and he's great to work with. He's really down to earth, and we got to know each other quite well.
flying fiddle
Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights. Charley Pride
fly-away dove curtains
Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove. Edith Piaf
flying thunderstorm instruments
In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying. Arnold Palmer
issues may stones
And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.
issues novel concern
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. Alan Paton
issues interesting psychology
I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology. Alan Greenspan
issues gold persuasion
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
issues patterns calling
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
issues problem sensitive
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me. Al Pacino
issue resolved
We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.
issues america knows
I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
issues focus management
You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do. David Allen
itself strength
One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.
itself lend setting troubled
With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls. Louis Sachar
itself outcome risk shows
The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.
itself legitimacy thus
Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real. Stephen Graham Jones
itself left microsoft
What's left under MSN -- MSNBC? Microsoft just divested itself of that, too.
itself plan rules
The plan itself is still being drafted. We're working with HUD on rules and regulations.
itself ok stopped stuff sundance
There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago. Robert Redford
itself knew music
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was. Enya
itself knocking narrative starts
When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it. Jim Crace
service speak terms
We want them to speak up on what they want in terms of service and care.
services social
We're going to try and make it a one-stop social services fair, Dan Bailey
service social sure understand
We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization. Dick Miller
service
She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.
services six users version
We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that. Sundar Pichai
service site web
We want the Web site to be a storefront, as a service to our viewers.
service site web
We want the Web site to be a store-front, as a service to our viewers.
services
The financial services industry is a ward of the state. Timothy Noah
services
China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S. Jerry Yang
wants
No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid. Kristin Cast
wants
She just wants to get on with her life.
wants
Jeff Bridges wants you to take it easy, man.
wants
She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.
wants
She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.
wants
She wants them back ... that's her life. J. Taylor
wants
She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.
wants
She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.
wants
She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right. Doug Phillips
york
My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special. Michael Musto
york
Mick says, Would you join the band? I say to him, Mick, you know I'd be there in a New York minute. Ron Wood
york
I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor. Erik Estrada
york
When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection. Carine Roitfeld
york
I have not heard that even the New York abortion has done very much in the States where it has been enacted.
york
I am the oldest young designer in New York City. Michael Kors
york
Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care. Ira Glass
york
I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian. Samira Wiley
york
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here. Ringo Starr