Word: expressions
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...online-reading market, rakes in an estimated revenue of 100 million yuan ($15 million) per year. Running three popular online-novel websites, Shanda boasts a total readership of 25 million and is growing at 10 million per year, according the company. "The Chinese people need a platform to express their creativity," said Hou Xiaoqiang, founding CEO of Shanda Literature. "I think our online-literature sites can partly cater to that need." (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...Occasionally, The Crimson Staff is divided about the opinion we express in a staff editorial. In these cases, dissenting staff members have the opportunity to express their opposition to staff opinion...
House Masters: Caring and hospitable. Diana and Dorothy love Lowell and the people in it, and express this love via weekly teas. Lowell tea is delicious and classy, and you should go as often as you can. Bring your friends who trash on the house and see what they have to say after their third scone or miniature cookie...
...much more. So many people think of a competition as competing with other people and being better: better extensions, more pirouettes, everything “more.” But to me a competition is like a gala. You show yourself, and you go out there, and you express yourself as you. That’s my biggest goal. Doing big full-length classical ballets, or not getting enough rehearsal for Balanchine, it’s almost more nerve-wrecking. But [in competition] you have a choice to be nervous or not to be, to compete with other people...
...over his words, he seemed nevertheless to be in control of his emotions. In his Queens accent, Madoff said he was grateful for the chance to address the court. "As the years went by, I realized my risk and this day would inevitably come," he said. "I cannot adequately express how sorry I am for my crimes." Madoff explained that his Ponzi scheme, run through an account held by his investment-advisory business at the Chase Manhattan Bank, began during a "recession" in the early 1990s. He believed he would be able to extricate himself and his clients from...