Word: branch
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...That's what China's new investors think, too. Punters gathered to swap stocks and stories at the Beijing branch office of the China Galaxy Securities brokerage house on Jan. 29 certainly weren't letting a small drop in the market that day dampen their spirits. "I guess the fluctuation will go on for a while, maybe for another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year." So confident are the assembled san hu that they don't even consider trading...
That's what China's new investors think too. Punters who gathered to swap stocks and stories at the Beijing branch of the China Galaxy Securities brokerage house on Jan. 29 weren't letting a small drop in the market that day dampen their spirits. "I guess the fluctuation will go on for a while, maybe another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year...
...virtual civil war weren't a problem enough, Iraq had to face down an armed uprising by a group that allegedly had a lot in common with the Branch Davidians - a millenarian cult led by a charismatic messiah figure who believed that it could bring about the end of the world. Indeed, the man who was hailed as the Mahdi - an Islamic figure who arrives with the cosmic apocalypse - wasn't just defending a military encampment in the holy city of Najaf from the Iraqi Army. He and his followers were protecting land that had been the cult's home...
...letter “appalling,” saying that her decision made Dartmouth the “laughingstock of all of academia.”“The administration and the campus as a whole owe the [Native Americans at Dartmouth] no sort of olive branch until [they] prove themselves willing to engage in a reasonable, productive dialogue,” the editorial reads. “Up to this point, they have not demonstrated that they are capable of, or willing to do so.”The newspaper issued an apology for the cover, which they...
...government, buoyed by roughly equal support to that of the opposition and backed by the weight of the international community, will not buckle regardless of any new measures undertaken by the opposition. That was implicitly acknowledged to TIME by Qassem Hashem, an opposition parliamentarian and member of the Lebanese branch of the Ba'ath Party. "The opposition is sensitive to the political tensions in Lebanon and has decided to stop its actions to give time for international and Arab mediation," he said...