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...racing has played a central role in Hong Kong's social and economic life since the British first colonized the barren rock, its citizens are not known for their sentimentality at the track. Yet attendance at Sha Tin would surge up to 50% whenever Silent Witness was on the card. His exploits even lifted Hong Kong's morale when the city badly needed a boost. In 2003, the first year he was named the world's top-ranked sprinter, the territory was reeling from sars, economic uncertainty and political tensions. Silent Witness gave Hong Kongers a sense of pride...
...Can’t Always Get What You Want” for the track “You’re Crashing, but You’re No Wave.” It’s the rough equivalent of giving your partner a used greeting card for your anniversary, then asking, “Aren’t you going to thank me?” I have no qualms with emo as a sub-genre of rock, nor with the premise of pouring your pre-teen heart out onto a page or into a microphone. As for listeners...
...places to put the ball, keeping the ball in play,” Weitzen said. “It starts with the pass, and our passing was great.” The only low point of the game for Harvard came when Fitz was issued a yellow card for talking back to the referee. Fitz seemed perturbed after freshman Gil Weintraub was called for a lift, even though he appeared to hit the ball legally. But the co-captain laughed it off, leaving the court a few points later to rest his ankle after a successful night...
...Delhi's toniest restaurants last week the bill came accompanied by a feedback form - rate the "ambience and d?cor," the "value of meal" - that the waiter urged me to fill out, sounding an off note at the end of a pleasant evening. And what to make of the little card asking me to "Tell Us What You Think" that dropped out of a free 2007 calendar that I received at my office a couple weeks ago. Should I complete the form now, or in a year...
...products depending on favoritism and availability. Now it's a market of supply and there's a lot more competition, so businesses have to be much more customer-focused." Sridevi Rao, an associate vice president at the research firm IMRB International in Mumbai, agrees. As new retail, telecom, credit card and airline businesses slug it out in the booming Indian market, she says, "players in these sectors are still in the process of standardizing service delivery while at the same time having to put up with strong competition from multiple service providers. In such a scenario it is inevitable that...