Word: digitalizes
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...revived the once outlawed Beijing Dance Academy, filling dance slippers with the feet of peasant children groomed to be stalwarts of a fiercely proletarian Chinese ballet style. Among them was Li, plucked from grade school because, he surmises, he had long toes. Talent scouts dispatched to the villages believed digit size to be an important physical asset for a dancer. "For me, a peasant boy, communism truly was great," Li writes...
...global financial markets. The fast-growing Chinese economy, the world's sixth largest, is experiencing irrational exuberance, mainland style, and it's up to Wen to reassure everyone that Beijing can ease the country's growth rate from last year's torrid (unofficial) rate of 11.5% to single-digit levels?and do so without causing a crash that slashes China's demand for imports...
After its flagship brand eked out low single-digit sales growth two quarters ago, Tropicana launched Light 'n Healthy, with 11/43 less sugar and 11/43 fewer calories...
...million U.S. employees and retirees last year. That's more than the car giant made in profits. DaimlerChrysler pays out about $1,300 in employee health benefits for the typical vehicle it makes. Across the U.S., 2004 is likely to be the fifth consecutive year of double-digit increases in total corporate health-care costs...
While most egg donors receive a few thousand dollars in compensation for the process (sperm donors only make a paltry hundred), Ivy League girls are the crème de la crème of the egg donation pool and routinely earn five-digit compensations...