Word: fold
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...likelihood, Chengdu and China's other interior cities will look more and more like Shanghai every year. The optimistic citizens of Chengdu, such as Liu Xindi, couldn't imagine anything else. Liu, 33, has seen his income skyrocket 20-fold since he began working 15 years ago. Now Liu, who sells ads for the local Yellow Pages, can splurge whenever he wants on his soccer shoes, badminton racquets and biking gear. But he still thinks the good times are just starting to roll. "Of course, I think my life will be better in the future," Liu says confidently. "The economy...
...pizza with the long wooden paddle. He has the alchemist's touch that turns mere dough and a minimal amount of the simplest toppings into a cavalcade of flavor. The secret to eating a thin-crust Neapolitan pizza is to slash the pie into four pieces on the spot, fold a slice in half, and wolf it down before the crust deflates and the sauce makes a Vesuvian lava flow down your front. With every passing fraction of a second, the pizza loses a bit of its airy perfection. The other advantage of eating it right there by the oven...
...usually read. What I wanted to do was try to make a hat out of it. I wondered whether the Journal's narrower new page is deficient in the same way as the similarly trimmed Atlanta Journal-Constitution's. For generations, the men who print the J-Cwould fold a sheet of it into a hat that kept ink out of their hair. Now, I was told on a recent tour of the J-C's plant, the paper is just barely not wide enough to make...
...that the Iraqi government wasn't inclined to follow a U.S. script in dispatching Saddam, because it hasn't been inclined to follow a U.S. script on the fundamental questions of national unity - reconciling with the Sunnis, making concessions to the insurgents to draw former Baathists back into the fold, and most importantly, reining in the Shi'ite death squads. Nor is this problem a unique failing of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki - who, in an interview in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday made clear that he no longer wants the job. The U.S. had no greater joy with...
...opening bids are in, and somebody is going to have to fold if the high-stakes diplomatic game over North Korea's nuclear weapons is going to produce a result before Christmas: That was the time frame for substantial progress set by U.S. envoy Christopher Hill going in the six-party talks that reconvened in Beijing Monday, after having been stalled for over a year, during which North Korea proved it has some form of nuclear weapon by conducting an underground test...