Word: choppings
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...there is a formula for foreign companies operating in Africa's extractive industries, it has been this: Pay the government millions of dollars for concession rights; dig, pump, pick or chop what you seek; and export. Don't worry too much about the country or its people...
Shanghai International Film Festival, June 14-22 To most Western audiences, Chinese cinema means Jackie Chan's goofball chop-socky or the high-wire fighting of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Get the bigger picture at the festival in Shanghai, the historical hub of China's film industry. The country's only international film festival celebrates foreign fare, but its main goal is to help launch the careers of young Chinese actors and filmmakers. Expect to see lots of melancholy love affairs and bizarre comedies. Karate? Not so much...
...story, and the discovery that the fortune cookie is not Chinese, that sparked Lee’s mission to learn more about the dessert. This search leads her to examine, tangentially, other facets of the American Chinese food industry: the ubiquity of the take-out menu, the popularity of chop suey, the integral role played by Chinese immigrants. Written from the first-person perspective, Lee’s book is quirky and amusing, a banquet of anecdotes and adventures complete with well-placed, droll quips. Excavating the often long and complicated history of Chinese food for the richest, most appetizing...
While some teams preferred to chop or smash avocados, Miles, who is an inactive Crimson photographer, said that her team had used their hands...
...didn't even know they had," says Scott Geels, analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in London. "And I wasn't the only one." Kleisterlee took a carving knife to Philips' abstruse portfolio. The semiconductor business--where even his own father labored--as well as other component businesses got the chop. "In the economic reality of today, you have to make a choice," Kleisterlee says. "We focus on the brand; we focus on marketing; we focus on downstream. We are very, very close to our customer...