Word: chins
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...learning they were wanted by police on the mainland, they turned themselves over to local authorities. An extradition battle is now brewing: China wants the Tus back, and the Taiwanese police want to try them on the island. The Taiwanese in Nanhai aren't holding their breath. Says Chang Chin-shun, the secretary-general of the area's Taiwanese businessmen's association: "Taiwan wants the evidence, but in this case there's nothing we can do to help...
...tech slowdown began almost a year ago and Asia's stock markets and economies have been taking it on the chin ever since. But the sense of panic is something new. Until recently, Asia's policymakers and business leaders were confident that it would not be long before American consumers started partying again. Like kids waiting for a joyride in the backseat of a souped-up Mustang, Asia's markets cheered each time U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan cranked the engine with yet another interest rate cut. But the car never budged. And as June turned to July...
...colonial mansions, golden stupas and languid monks wrapped in saffron robes. Once he had slowed down to the somnolent pace, Kerry felt his job as head of security company Lao Securicor was the perfect transition from soldier to civilian. A military man with a square build and a hard chin, he had spent 20 years in Australia's Elite Special Air Service. Now he was giving orders instead of taking them...
...what it's worth. In Blood Sweat & Tears (Texere; 338 pages) Richard Donkin, a Financial Times writer on management topics, sets out to find some answers. The quest is not a complete success, but it does offer some comfort to today's overworked wage slaves. Donkin leads with his chin. In the first few pages he asserts that most of us work to help "make a better world," that "work has come to dominate the lives of the salaried masses so much that they are losing the ability to play," that the modern working environment is suffocated by technologies like...
...like George Foreman had beat the crap out of him for two hours." The beating had actually been administered by Erik's climbing partner, Luis Benitez. Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch him, his climbing pole raked Erik across the nose and chin. Wounds heal slowly at that altitude because of the thin...