Word: choicest
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...Tinto could give China more influence over the price. During the boom years, when Chinese companies' appetite for virtually every metal was voracious, they got stuck with stiff price increases. The deal could give Chinalco, which already owns 9.3% of Rio, better access to the company's choicest deposits of copper, iron ore and bauxite. The secretary-general of China's Iron and Steel Association, Shan Shanghua, has already hinted that Chinese buyers could have some additional clout. This rankles some of Rio's major shareholders. "It's up to Rio to convince us that this does not transfer...
...with the big raw-material producers over new contracts. During the boom years, when Chinese companies' appetite for virtually every metal was voracious, they got stuck with stiff price increases. But the deal could give Chinalco, which already owns 9.3% of Rio, additional stakes in the mining company's choicest deposits of copper, iron ore and bauxite. The secretary general of China's Iron and Steel Association, Shan Shanghua, has already hinted that Chinese buyers could have some additional clout at the bargaining table...
...many of the new jobs were filled by foreign workers from China, Hong Kong and the Philippines. In 2003, approximately one out of every 10 jobs was filled by a foreigner. By the first quarter of this year, that ratio rose to one in four. Although many of the choicest positions are reserved by regulation for locals - all card dealers in casinos, for example, must be Macanese - the surge of imported staff has led to complaints that outsiders are reaping a disproportionate amount of the benefits of Macau's boom. "We locals are losing our jobs and the government couldn...
...intimate and iconic at the same time. She takes what is momentary and makes it indelible. TIME's White House photographer from 1984 to 2000, she trained her eye on America's First Families, from Presidents Gerald Ford to Bill Clinton, even before joining the magazine. Some of the choicest images from those years are in her book The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits. In 1992 she was granted what would be eight years of behind-the-scenes access to the Clintons. That's how she famously captured Hillary Clinton's examination of Chelsea's outfit on Inauguration...
...enough space to expose a miniscule fraction of the stupid shenanigans that are annoying at best and at worst stink up our campus reputation like the rank vents surrounding the Garage on Mount Auburn Street. Thus I offer this final column of the semester as an airing of the choicest 10 pieces of dirty laundry from the past year that I have yet to cover. Think of this “can’t stand it” list as my secular, non-judgmental holiday present to readers that hints ever so mildly at potential resolutions...