Word: developable
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...some workers to the brink. "I'm tired, cranky and frustrated," says a 35-year-old vice president of the commercial lending division of a Chicago bank. "We don't have any support, so you have to do everything yourself. I don't have time to go out and develop new deals and make my objectives." Still, the tenuous employment scene fills her with enough fear that she asks to remain unnamed. "I have a good salary, so I just resign myself," she sighs...
...London. Or maybe it was just more aftershocks from last month's bombing in Bali. But Europe was starting to feel a lot like the U.S., as terror alerts were issued across the continent. In Britain, the Home Office issued a statement saying that terrorists may "try to develop a so-called dirty bomb or some kind of poison gas," though within an hour the statement was replaced by a less frightening one. In Berlin, Germany's intelligence chief, August Hanning, said on TV: "The fear is very concrete that we must reckon with a further attack ... of perhaps great...
...Diana. The Windsors selected her as a future Queen on much the same basis as they would have bought a horse; she came from good stock, had excellent bones, and had never been saddled. Their fatal miscalculation was to forget that beautiful 19-year-old girls grow up, and develop the characteristics that come with age; revenge, among them. The key point about Diana, however, was less that she would not take her many humiliations lying down, and more that she understood precisely what modern Britain wanted - that she should be sexy, not dowdy; city, not country; clubby, not doggy...
...super brands like Diageo's J&B (the world's top-selling Scotch), Allied Domecq's Ballantine's and Pernod Ricard's Chivas Regal will inevitably kill off other whiskies, the upside of consolidation is that the industry now has players with the financial resources and distribution networks to develop new markets and keep Scotch atop the international drinks league...
...East Asia, his lyrical fictional style has spawned a legion of imitators dubbed "Murakami's children." In South Korea, where his books often hit best-seller lists, 50 volumes of his work have appeared in translation, including novels, short stories, travel pieces, essays and interviews. "Readers develop empathy for Japanese of their age through Murakami's books," writes Noriko Kayanuma, a professor of Japanese literature at Choong Euk National University in South Korea. "They realize that Japanese young people have similar sentiments, worries and problems." In the West, too, admiration is growing. "Is he the voice of our age?" asks...