Word: coughs
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...Skyscrapers and vast shopping malls are springing up alongside the 28 million new trees that have been planted in an attempt to counteract the 3 million vehicles that clog the city's streets and whose fumes contribute to pollution so bad that new arrivals invariably develop a racking cough that can plague them for months. More than anything else, perhaps, it is the human tide sweeping Beijing that is remaking the city, with migrant workers from tiny villages in every corner of China standing wide-eyed on the streets, lured by the hundreds of thousands of jobs the boom...
...Turkey. In his Kremlin office, he sat in an oversize armchair next to mine and smoked Marlboro Reds. In all, he came off as far more informal and direct than a Western counterpart would be. He spoke for over an hour, interrupting the conversation only for an occasional hacking cough or to answer calls as they came in, every few minutes, on his new iPhone. With elections on the way, a series of heated geopolitical statements to spin, the usually unforthcoming Russian government recently hired a U.S.-based PR firm to reach out with its side of the story. TIME...
...when he feels a takeout isn't fair. "Oh, absolutely," he said. "Our fiduciary obligation is to maximize the returns and the valuation for our investors." Carl Icahn more recently suffered a similar predicament when shareholders rebelled against his offer for auto-parts maker Lear Corp., forcing him to cough up more cash. And several PE financings have flopped because investors balked at the lenient loan terms...
Lewis "Scooter" Libby isn't going to jail, but he still has to cough up a $250,000 fine, serve two years of supervised release and live with his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice - unless they're overturned on appeal...
...instead the FDA saves its fire for the high-risk goods that have caused health problems. That's what happened in early June with Chinese-made toothpaste. Following 100 deaths in Panama linked to cough syrup containing diethylene glycol (the ingredient had been mislabeled as glycerin, which is harmless), the FDA issued an import alert on all toothpaste made in China, tested the tubes it could find for the toxin and recalled the questionable batches. "Obviously it's not possible for us to test every product that is coming in to make sure it's meeting every standard we have...