Word: buoying
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...Sopko said. “We want to get her used to different things.” This year marks the Kong’s 54th birthday. The family-run business is currently managed by the children of Sen and Buoy Lee, who opened the restaurant in 1954. In an interview yesterday, Buoy Lee, who is no longer directly involved in the business’ daily affairs, recalled when she and her husband did all the cooking and washing in the business’ early days. When asked how her family celebrated the Chinese New Year in the past...
...message of Seven Pounds (other than, Don't text-message while driving) is that even the most depressive person can find a way to make other people happy. If that doesn't sound like a movie to buoy your Christmas spirit, ask yourself this: How often do you sit through a film's closing credits so you have a little private time to wipe away the tears...
...green promise also sent an unvarnished signal to some of the most influential climate negotiators in the world - including representatives for China and Indonesia, who will be vital in completing a new Kyoto Protocol - that he intends to fight climate change head-on. And his statement may well buoy the flagging global momentum on climate change. The European Union, which has long led the world in aggressively addressing global warming, has lately gotten cold feet about its own ambitious carbon targets, with poorer members like Poland arguing that such goals are unaffordable in a depressed global economy. Big developing nations...
...China A Chinese New Deal? With its GDP growth rate projected to slow from 12% in 2007 to less than 9% in 2009, China announced a $586 billion stimulus to buoy the economy. While much of the spending is not new, the plan is meant to sustain the country's recent prosperity--and reinforce its political stability...
...Also, the race course is short. It is sailed many times. This involves a lot of turning. How 18 boats all sailing around the same tiny buoy manage not to hit each other…in my opinion, a bona fide miracle. In reality, a whole lot of technical skill...