Word: borrowings
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...admitted that truth. But it is beginning to see the wisdom of looking to other countries' experiences in making the transition to modernity. In a speech last month to a closed-door session of the Communist Party leadership, President Hu Jintao said that the Party should "study and borrow from the useful practices" of ruling parties elsewhere in the world, in order to "widen our eyes and open our minds." The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that Hu went on to say that the repositioning of the British Labour Party to the center was an example...
...admitted that truth. But it is beginning to see the wisdom of looking to other countries' experiences in making the transition to modernity. In a speech last month to a closed-door session of the Communist Party leadership, President Hu Jintao said that the Party should "study and borrow from the useful practices" of ruling parties elsewhere in the world, in order to "widen our eyes and open our minds." The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported that Hu went on to say that the repositioning of the British Labour Party to the center was an example...
...kept hoping I would get to knock on her door and borrow a cup of sugar,” she says...
...Unlike Picasso, he used African sculpture not as a route into his fears and sexual obsessions but as a much more benign vocabulary of forms that could be joined with other influences to produce--and overproduce--his enigmatic, spiritualized faces. Over the next few years he would learn to borrow as well from the simplified language of Cambodian stonework, early Christian statuary and the geometric abstraction of ancient Cycladic sculpture...
...tightly enforced," says Shao Zhongye, finance director for Shanghai Longyuan Real Estate Co., which develops apartment buildings. That's changed. Shao's company just finished a development of 97 units, and he's worried about getting financing for his next project. "It definitely will be a lot harder to borrow now," he says. And although new remedies haven't taken effect yet, recent economic indicators are promising. Last week, Beijing announced that industrial output declined in April, the third monthly decline in a row; growth in production of both steel and cement also slowed...