Word: buzzings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...prevent individuals from manipulating the market, driving share prices down so that they can later be bought at bargain rates. "I object to fluctuations caused by false rumors," Thirachai says. But with the SET index down this year by nearly 25%, some fear the attempt to muzzle market buzz will only scare off institutional investors and make matters worse. "The problem is that information, the media, is too tightly controlled by the government," says Sompop Manarungsan, an economics professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, "so rumor fills the vacuum." Information yearns to be free...
...uses the public Web, so phone calls travel alongside messages, digital photos and online shopping orders. Traditional phone service, on the other hand, creates a dedicated circuit between you and whomever you're calling. That century-old system is darn near perfect--while Web calls are prone to background buzz--but not nearly as efficient as the Web. Because Vonage can route calls at a lower cost and does not face the fees and taxes imposed on regular phone service, monthly bills are typically half what you would pay the phone company...
...ever get to participate in any single Summer Olympics. The cruelty of a system that enlists so many children and brings success to so few has led even the victorious to question the nation's obsession with Olympic glory. Xiao Jian, a lanky 30-year-old with an overgrown buzz cut, came to the Guangdong Sports Technology Institute?one rung higher on the sports hierarchy than Weilun?as a fencer back in 1989. At last year's national games, he was the men's ?p?e champion. But he was left off this year's Olympic roster due to what...
...left, deputy night editor Helen McCabe spots a weak first paragraph. Eleven hours into her shift, she coolly begins rewriting. Within minutes the story's refiled, and the paper is done and gone. Journalist friends say they can't understand why she gave up writing, but "the buzz of getting a byline or a splash is the same buzz I get from this," she says. "It's not the power; it's the fun, the crafting." As she walks out just after 1 a.m. into the dark morning, she remembers she hasn't eaten since breakfast, or left the building...
...former prison guard with hooded eyes and a buzz cut who, at over 1.8 m tall, towers over most Chinese, Lu might seem a tough nut to crack. But when Ho approached Lu and his colleagues three years ago with a proposal to collaborate on vaccine trials, Ho was surprised by the response he got. They were eager to cooperate, he recalls, but had little interest in a vaccine. They were more concerned with helping those already struggling with the disease. "We wanted to push the vaccine," says Ho, "and they wanted to get more treatment for patients, more trained...