Word: asianness
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...wants to be at Lamont for days. That unshowered, unkempt, under-nourished kid, who’s been sitting in the same desk for the past week, writing his final paper—he doesn’t want to be there. Neither does that little Asian girl, who’s fallen asleep crying over her Orgo textbook (trust me). So, maybe they save their desks and make it slightly harder for you to find one, Mr. mid-afternoon-casual-Lamont-visitor. Take a step back and feel for your fellow Lamont-goer...not to say I wrote...
...such treatment partly because few will defend them. Muzaffar, whose full name is being withheld by the Arakan Project, is a member of the Rohingya community, a Muslim ethnic group living in abysmal conditions on the margins of Burma and Bangladesh. Some 800,000 Rohingya, who look South Asian, remain in western Burma, where they are denied citizenship and most rights by the military-run government; about 200,000 eke out an existence in squalid refugee camps across the border in Bangladesh. A scattered, quiet diaspora scratches at the fringe of society in countries as far-flung as Saudi Arabia...
...still here?" - To a colleague, thirty minutes after Cook remarked to that same coworker that Apple's Asian operations had encountered a problem and "someone should really be in China driving this." Fortune...
...Deflation may not have had a bad name until it hit the Japanese economy in the early 1990s. The financial activity in the Asian nation went into a long hibernation. The pace of commerce slowed to a point which had not been seen in the modern history of the country...
...aftermath of ferry disasters, while blame is usually assigned, little is done to prevent recurrences. Asian government officials say there is widespread awareness that maritime safety ought to be improved - but that budget constraints and bureaucratic roadblocks impede progress...