Word: glassed
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China and the U.S. are passing one another going in opposite directions. Deng Xiaoping, who ran China after Mao had become a tourist attraction lying in a glass box in Beijing, began moving the country to a capitalist economy. By the time he died in 1997, China had begun vigorous trade with the outside world leading to remarkable years of GDP growth. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...getting tougher these days to think of the glass as half full rather than half empty, but if you're going to survive this economic crisis - literally - you might as well...
...used to listen to him in the car...I'd notice that I disagreed with everything he was saying, yet I not only wanted to keep listening, I actually liked him." - NPR's Ira Glass, The New York Times Magazine, July...
...credit. In about six weeks, they have done three major things: the $800 billion stimulus package, a mortgage program that is much more than the previous Administration did and a bank plan that, however flawed, at least has the benefit of not having another bailout of the banks. The glass is half full. But for each one, there are some flaws ... the bank plan wants to pretend that the government is half pregnant with the banks. The debate is between partial and full nationalization, not between nationalization or no nationalization. Go and do the job and do it right...
...lies one of the half a dozen police vehicles that were escorting the bus from the team's hotel to the stadium. The windscreen of the blue Punjab Elite Police pickup bears six large bullet holes. The roof is badly damaged. On the driver's seat, amid shards of glass, is a blood-stained cap belonging to one of the dead police officers. Blood is smeared across the steering wheel, and forms small pools in the backseat. Bullet casings lie nearby. According to eyewitnesses and police accounts, the police officers and the attackers were locked in a gun battle...