Word: endless
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Russia and China have endless superficial differences and similarities. For instance, one does not find public drunkenness in China-an everyday sight in the Soviet Union. It seems strange to a visitor that the one vice that thrives in a spartan socialist land devoted to physical fitness is addiction to tobacco. Chain-smoking cigarettes seems to be one of the few licit tokens of individual prosperity in China. Stores feature Panda pipe tobacco and three kinds of cigars; the Great Wall brand is favored by Chairman...
...Shanghai's Number One Department Store exceed that found in Moscow's massive GUM. Food (a Chinese fixation) seems to be more plentiful than in the Soviet Union, especially fresh vegetables, meat and poultry. At dusk, the outskirts of Shanghai begin to look like one vast, endless vegetable market as peasants, by barge and handcart, bring their harvests to market...
...medicine for fever, and perhaps the Carceri were inspired by it; certainly their feeling of limitless dread, of imprisonment by infinite space, pertains to opium experience. Hence Piranesi's interest for some 19th century writers who, like Coleridge and Baudelaire, were opium addicts. "With the same power of endless growth and reproduction," wrote Thomas de Quincey in Confessions of an English Opium Eater, "did my architecture proceed in dreams." Today, for an audience soaked in cheap psychedelia, Piranesi's prisons are a reminder that only complex and fastidious minds have trips that are worth recalling. They...
...operation of the airline. When he could not find a No. 2 man to suit him, he picked four "group vice presidents" to share the second spot and gave every indication that one of them would eventually become president. That unusual arrangement led to endless confusion over responsibility and frenetic efforts by each of the "groupies" to promote himself. Infighting was compounded by Halaby's aversion to making firm decisions...
...mutual-fund empire came tumbling down in a spectacular mid-1970 crash, his main company, Investors Overseas Services, sank so low that moneymen might well have figured it had nowhere to go but up. Not so. Under Cornfeld's successors, I.O.S.'s troubles have been endless. The several mutual funds that it manages have gone on dwindling in value, to about $982 million last week, from $2.3 billion in the late 1960s. Roughly 300,000 investors, mostly Europeans, still have money tied up in I.O.S.-and they are hurting. Anybody who put $1,000 into its vaunted Fund...