Word: bow
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...Chinese currency. So far this year, the yuan has appreciated nearly 20% against both the euro and the Japanese yen. Consequently, while the U.S. continues to urge Beijing to allow its currency to strengthen versus the dollar, the yuan has already strengthened against most other currencies. Why should China bow to the U.S. and compound the already serious currency risks bearing down on its exporters...
Harvard references abound on “The Simpsons,” television’s definitive animated comedy. And it’s all because of the members of a mysterious “Castle” located on the corner of Bow, Plympton, and Mount Auburn Streets. A semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon churns out comedy writers as efficiently as it prints copies...
...Bow to your sensei, Bulldogs...
...many people in uniform with the red-blood stripe down their leg,” said Joseph M. Kristol ’09, a Midshipman 4th class in the Naval ROTC. “It’s good to be around real Marines.” In a bow to their Business School surroundings, the traditional re-telling of the Corps’ history was presented in a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation. Marines have celebrated the birthday since 1921, when Lt. Gen. John A. Lejeune, a Marine commander during World War I, wrote a summary of the history...
...wives of nightfall" who for centuries have entertained Japanese gentlemen with delicacy, wit and performance skills. At 15, Chiyo has these graces only in embryo; but a famous geisha, Mameha, sees how they might flower. She begins the girl's education sternly. "That is a perfect bow. For a pig farmer." "Rise. Not like a horse." And slowly the eager student with the "watery" gray eyes grows into a captivating woman known as Nitta Sayuri. Hatsumomo, another geisha, sees Sayuri's promise as a threat. She spits a warning at the girl: "I will destroy...