Word: begun
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...though, there's a sense that the party has only just begun, with much of the expansion opportunity driven by the recent opening of the financial sectors of China and India to foreign private banks. Having joined the World Trade Organization five years ago, China is required to start making its banking market more accessible to foreign firms in 2007. In anticipation, Citigroup opened a private-banking office in Shanghai in March?the first such office on the mainland?in a bid to attract some of the 300,000 Chinese millionaires that it reckons are currently underserved. "With the kind...
...press corps had begun to fade away when Karr, in a surprise, sent word that he wanted to speak directly to the media, and he was hustled back into the room. I found myself crouched directly in front of him as he sat at the table. His jaw was locked and his eyes darted as the questions began firing. Did he kill JonBenet Ramsey? Karr spoke slowly, his voice low and stuttering. "I was with JonBenet when she died... Her death was an accident." Other questions elicited silence, or pained glances. A "no comment" on his relationship to the Ramsey...
School bells have begun to ring in New Orleans as a wave of public school students returned this week to a radically different educational system from the one Hurricane Katrina decimated almost a year...
...take any incident like that extremely seriously," Dell spokesman Ira Williams says of the Osaka incident. Williams says that Dell's investigation had begun before the incident, and additional data contributed to the recall decision...
...hardly a new concept. Henry Thoreau tucked himself into a 150-sq.-ft. house on Walden Pond in the 1840s, and the city of San Francisco built some 5,600 earthquake cottages for survivors of the 1906 temblor. But over the past decade, dozens of architects and builders have begun specializing in tiny-house designs. And home buyers--motivated by the desire to simplify their lives, use fewer resources and save money--are falling in love with the little things. Gregory Johnson, a co-founder of the Small House Society in Iowa City, Iowa, estimates that anywhere from...