Word: bunds
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...Tigers had built an earth bund, several meters high, around a narrow 12-km (7.5-mile) no-fire zone on the eastern shores of the Mulaithivu lagoon and, according to reports from the area, had set up gun encampments every 30 meters (98 feet) or so along it. According to Laxman Hulugalle, Director General of the Sri Lankan defense ministry's Media Centre for National Security, after overnight fighting, troops captured a small stretch of the fortified earth bund on the morning of April 20, and between 25,000 and 30,000 civilians trapped behind the bund streamed through...
...Shanghai not long ago, I took a walk from my hotel along Nanjing Road to the Bund, the promenade on the banks of the Huangpu where visitors from China's hinterland gather to gaze across the river, awestruck, at the ultramodern skyscrapers of Pudong that have transformed the city's skyline in not much more than a decade. It wasn't what was on the far side, though, that got my attention: it was the traffic on the river itself, great container ships, chuffing lighters, bulk carriers, every sort of waterborne vessel you could imagine carrying every imaginable cargo, churning...
...Asian societies, too, has had profound implications. At the most basic level, it has encouraged a wide-eyed admiration. In 2004, the World Bank held a global conference on poverty reduction in Shanghai, and I remember press reports describing the scene each evening. African delegates would gather on the Bund and look over the brown waters of the Whampoa to Pudong, gazing in wonder on an unearthly tableau of neon and skyscrapers built on marshes and paddyfields in not much more than 10 years...
...late Salvatore Ferragamo. Were he to have seen them, the "Shoemaker of Dreams," as he was known when he was crafting platforms and slippers for Hollywood icons like Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe would doubtless have spun in his grave, fast enough to power the lights of the Bund, Shanghai's luxury strip...
...office on Shanghai's famous Bund, and I half-jokingly told him I was a little nervous about my investment. Analysts' reports these days are full of tales about China's real estate bubble. Was it possible that the skeptics might be right - that Shanghai itself is already overbuilt, and the suburbs Guo is helping create are a bridge way too far? He looked at me as if I were from another planet, then smiled politely. "There is only one Shanghai in China," he said. "People want to come here from all over the country. People need good quality housing...