Word: expo
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Other attractions will include the Rowing and Fitness Expo tent which will have new exercise clothing, and the Weld Exhibition where official sponsors of the Head Of The Charles will offer free samples of their products...
...Harvard’s Weld Boathouse will be the “Weld Exhibition,” featuring food and freebies from the race’s official sponsors, while a new food court will be set up by the Weeks Footbridge and another at the Rowing and Fitness Expo, on Soldiers Field Road...
...This growing soft power of China was strengthened by the 2008 Olympics extravaganza, and the Shanghai Expo next year will similarly dazzle. The 60th anniversary celebration in Beijing on Oct. 1 will impress, if not frighten, the world with an arresting display of military hardware and goose-stepping soldiers. Less visible is the fact that China is the first major economy to recover from the global recession and, indeed, is leading the world out of it. (Read "Mission Accomplished. Now What...
Speaking to the Times this year - and echoing what he told the Guardian staff and some 1,000 techies at the 2008 Future of Web Apps Expo in London - Huh said the key to making a site take off is connecting it to a cultural phenomenon. I Can Has Cheezburger?, for instance, pokes fun at an oft-maligned, inscrutable household pet, appealing to cat lovers and others. (Huh is allergic.) FAIL Blog has helped popularize fail as both a noun and an exclamation, not to mention an easier-to-spell synonym for schadenfreude. Another site, This is Photobomb, gives...
That is true even of Sheldon Adelson, who has lost more during this recession than anyone else on the planet. The 76-year-old chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., which owns the Venetian hotel, the Sands Expo and Convention Center and the Venetian Macao, was in 2007 and '08 the third richest person in the world, with - by his estimate - a net worth of $40 billion. By February of this year, he said he had lost $36.5 billion - more than the GDP of half of the countries in the world. In the years before that slide, banks were...