Word: entr
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...neither of them would give Obama an automatic entrée to crucial voter groups that Clinton won - women, Latinos, older voters, blue-collar whites - and that in many key states have appeared to be beyond his reach. "There is still a lot of enthusiasm and support out there for her," says a leader of a women's activist organization. "It is a valid question where that goes after June 3" - the date of the last Democratic primaries. In that regard, exit polls from her lopsided win over Obama in Kentucky pointed in an ominous direction: only a third...
...Although the Chinese government is also trying to nurture stock markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen, Beijing still views Hong Kong as crucial because it offers an entrée to the outside world. China's capital markets, largely closed today, are being gradually opened, meaning ordinary citizens will eventually be free to invest some of their wealth outside the country - with Hong Kong, which is a Special Administrative Region of the mainland, as the likely first stop. Beijing last year proposed a new program, nicknamed "the through train to the Hong Kong stock exchange," that would allow individual Chinese...
...night, the streets of Phnom Penh reveal the country's vast wealth gap. In front of shopping centers selling luxury cosmetics, whole families sleep on patches of sidewalk; beggars missing limbs, a legacy of civil war, crowd outside upscale restaurants where a tiny élite downs French entrées and chic cocktails. But many average Cambodians hope this poverty will vanish, thanks to an apparent miracle: the country has discovered oil. Off Cambodia's southern coast, explorers have found as much as 500 million barrels, potentially providing over $1 billion annually to the country...
...Mercifully for diners, Sezai's use of the fabled spice is a workable compromise between flavor and affordability. Meals of mixed starters, entrée and dessert can be comfortably had for under $30. Afterwards, guests can head to the champagne bar and enjoy the one Moroccan delicacy about which there is no debate in smoking-mad Indonesia: 12 flavors of imported tobacco, drawn through handblown glass shisha pipes. For reservations call...
...bison entrée in the photo was mouthwatering, but farming an animal for its meat could hardly be characterized as giving it a chance at life. There is something unutterably sick and unnerving about the idea that life is somehow worth living when it inevitably leads to someone's dinner plate. Jason J. Yuen, Chicago...