Word: dashes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...large percentage of Chinese - upwards of 40% according to some estimates - pay cash for new apartments, because in a high savings economy, housing is widely seen as a safe investment. That means, in China, you don't have the real estate equivalent of "dine and dash": people don't abandon houses the minute they think the price level is lower than what they paid, leaving it to the mortgage company or the banks to sort out. There's no sub-prime, zero-percent-down U.S.-style debacle here...
...runs the Voice of Tibet radio station. "There is demand for translators from Chinese to Tibetan and back, for example, but few students have the guidance to know this. Is there a single Tibetan who has studied Chinese policy? International law? U.N. mechanisms?" he asks with more than a dash of criticism, adding, "Enthusiasm and intentions are necessary, but good education is also needed...
...IC4A and ECAC Championships this past Saturday and Sunday. Of the men, who competed in the 20-event IC4A Championships at Boston University’s track, standouts included sprinter John Dingus and pole vaulter Nico Weiler, both freshmen. Dingus qualified for the finals of the 400-meter dash, finishing ninth overall at 48:19 and breaking his own school record. He finished eighth in the finals at 49:43. Weiler finished his event impressively at first overall, vaulting 5.00 meters. The rookie was pleased with his performance, but felt that he could have done better...
...steel skeleton an outline of a multibillion-dollar dream gone hungry. Across the street, there's a Modernist chapel, a lonely vigil of virtue on the Strip - people seek salvation elsewhere in this town. Look west toward the mountains and you can trace the Vegas real estate developers' dash toward the horizon with building projects. Now as far as you can drive, there are foreclosed homes and empty new developments offering come-ons to prospective buyers...
...matter of just two years, the athlete relied on raw talent to own school records in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash, pentathlon, and heptathlon, to name...