Word: abandonments
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...most densely populated place in the world, the city sees its park benches packed while strangers share restaurant tables. And for the 40,000 people who die there every year, it turns out there's no respite from the crowds either. While land shortages forced most Hong Kongers to abandon burials in the 1980s, now the city has run out of space even for cremated ashes. By some estimates, around 50,000 families are presently storing their relatives' remains in funeral homes while they wait, perhaps for years, to secure a one-square-foot wall niche...
...little bit more understanding of where they come from. If you read this book, you'll certainly never be a bore at a dinner party. Everyone has experiences, and you're dealing with a lot of deep-seated convictions which are very difficult to get people to abandon. So in reading the book, you're going to discover a whole realm of thoughts that most people never even considered as being supernatural...
...first quarter has been marked by almost no "earnings warnings." Companies that think they will miss either their own forecasts or those floating around on Wall St. traditionally tell the world that results will be worse than expected so investors can abandon their holdings a week or two earlier than they would if the company waited to put out results on its normal schedule. It is a perverse practice which is probably due to concerns by the SEC that a public corporation should not sit on really bad news any longer than possible. There have been very few warnings this...
That's one reason failure in Afghanistan is not an option. An Afghan businessman adds another. He lived through the resistance to the Soviets in the 1980s, only to see the U.S. abandon Afghanistan when they left. Another betrayal, he thinks, could produce the same blowback that helped lead to 9/11. "If Afghanistan is sold out again," he says, "you would be basically giving 60% of the nation into the hands of the people who want to destroy the West. And I can tell you that these young Afghans are ingenious, they are creative and they know...
...older cohort, ages 19 to 23, with about 15% in each group reporting such weight-control tactics. But among former vegetarians, that number jumped to 27%. The findings suggest that age matters when it comes to vegetarianism: teenage vegetarians as well as young experimenters - those who try it but abandon it - may be at higher risk for other eating disorders compared with their peers. But by young adulthood, many still-practicing vegetarians have presumably chosen it as a lifestyle rather than a dieting ploy, the study suggests...