Word: barrenly
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...weeks every year, Mecca becomes the most crowded city on earth. Set in a small valley surrounded by barren hills, the town lives on one trade, as reflected in an old local saying: "We sow no wheat or sorghum, the pilgrims are our crops." Scores of languages can be heard, and a multiplicity of cuisines is available: Arab, Indonesian, Turkish, Indian, Pakistani, Lebanese...
...just a ploy to appeal to human sentiment.” Other comments bothered me because of their flagrant inaccuracy. I joined the demonstrators in trying to dispel some of these myths. No—nobody here supports suicide bombings. No—Palestinian territory was not a barren desert wasteland before Israel conquered it in 1967. No—the Palestinian cause is not about destroying Israel; it’s about human rights, self-determination and an end to an illegal occupation...
...TRADING PLACES How far did Enron go to misrepresent its business? According to the Wall Street Journal, Enron in 1998 asked 75 people, from secretaries to sales reps, to relocate to an otherwise barren trading floor and pretend to buy and sell energy contracts to impress visiting Wall Street analysts. As the analysts trooped through, the Enron employees, who had hurriedly outfitted their new work spaces with family photos and other personal items, conducted fake phone conversations and tried to appear busy. When the tour ended, former CEO Ken Lay reportedly returned to compliment the employees on their performance...
FORTUNE's Global 500 is a barren place for Chinese companies. The lowest-ranked firms on the list book $10.3 billion in revenues, and only a handful of mainland companies in banking, telecom, oil and chemicals make the cut. No Chinese manufacturer of consumer goods qualifies. But an upstart called Haier plans to be there soon...
There are few places in the world as barren, empty and isolated as the western plains of Inner Mongolia?which is precisely the region's draw. For a tourist who has seen it all?and endured the throngs that pack most vacation spots?the vast horizons of the northern steppe offer the perfect opportunity to get away from the familiar. Not to be confused with the independent country of Mongolia to the north, Inner Mongolia lies in a giant arc just beyond the Great Wall, stretching from Manchuria in the east all the way west to Xinjiang?and occupying nearly...