Word: dullness
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...Some are already starving. China's competitive advantage has been its armies of cheap workers, but that edge is getting dull. Labor costs have increased 50% in the past four years across southeastern provinces - an area of China sometimes called the "workshop of the world" - and a new labor law passed by Beijing will only add to the burden. Jonathan Anderson, an economist at UBS in Hong Kong, says that factory owners in southern China believe the new law will drive labor costs another 10-25% higher. Among other provisions, the new law entitles laid-off workers to one month...
...safe and dull; Coe squanders an opportunity...
...point lead with 6:52 to play in the first quickly mutated into a nine-point deficit at halftime. The Crimson’s shooting, which kept the baskets singing in the first half (50 percent from three-point range) calmed to a dull roar in the second (23 percent from downtown...
...piano-oriented past. Fortunately, the gamble pays off in dividends, and “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” stands as the mark of an explosive and brilliant new incarnation of the Bad Seeds.The title track opens the album, plunging forward with a grating guitar crunch and the dull moan of church organs. The Bad Seeds chant the chorus like oarsmen on a Viking ship: “Dig yourself / Laz’rus, dig yourself / Back in that hole.” In sarcastic spoken-word, Cave recounts the mournful wanderings of post-tomb Lazarus, whose brief encounter...
...helps that the election season has been anything but dull. The sight of a woman, a black man, a Mormon, a Christian preacher and a former POW slugging it out has been as fascinating to many of us out here as it is to American voters. Hillary Clinton appeals to many who have fond memories of her husband's presidency and those who would like to see a woman in the White House; McCain comes off as brave and decent; and in Barack Obama, a biracial son of an immigrant, millions see themselves. "Educated, international-minded Indians get a huge...