Word: bazaar
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Freedom, for all of its noise and confusion so evident at the Geneva summit, imposes standards of behavior for those who want approval in its open bazaar. Boors and bullies are these days most often put down in the long run of events...
...Chongqing and in Chengdu, the province's capital. Under a huge white statue of Mao, disparagingly called the "Old Man" by many Chinese, downtown Chengdu is alive with hundreds of peddlers hawking fruit, vegetables, meat, fabrics, pots, wicker furniture, even Brooke Shields calendars. The bargaining would shame an Arab bazaar. "What do you mean selling them at this price?" a woman asks a man hawking tangerines. "They're full of defects." The vendor yells back, "Defects? What do you mean defects? You can't get tangerines at a better price." Meanwhile, local government agents patrol the street, collecting...
...launch of the new Xbox, Gates & Co. is hoping to turn it into a major online community with Friendster-like features that match up compatible gamers. Companies will use Live to distribute game trailers and sell mini-games and new game levels. It will be a free-for-all bazaar. Players will be able to customize games--say, the way the skateboards might look in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland--and then sell their custom wares to one another online...
...shootout with authorities or committed suicide rather than endure capture. Police officials believe that Yassin and the women had connections to Hassan Bashandi, who launched Egypt's latest wave of violence on April 7 with a suicide attack that killed three foreign tourists in Cairo's popular bazaar, the Khan El Khalili...
...gentle murmurings, Author Barry Hannah, 43, persists in making rude noises. Captain Maximus, his sixth book and second collection of stories, is full of spite, rage, booze and unregenerate boorishness. Not one of Hannah's two-fisted protagonists or narrators would perform well at a dinner party or charity bazaar. They resist gentrification. They hang around in scuzzy bars, wallowing in anarchic musings: "I thought of my books, my children, and the fact that almost everybody sells used cars or dies early. I used to get so angry about this issue that I would drag policemen out of their cars...