Word: inks
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...their own translation of the English text, in which the double "very sorry" became the very "shenbiao qianyi" (deep expression of apology or regret) that Washington had steered clear of. It's a safe bet that the U.S. embassy's own translation into Chinese is unlikely to get any ink in the Chinese press...
...well-known Russian tech pioneer, has moved the headquarters of his company, ParallelGraphics (www.parallelgraphics.com), to Ireland and hired a local as ceo. The company traces its origins to 1988 and a Russian software start-up called Paragraph. It was among the first to develop handwriting recognition and digital ink technologies, which were licensed by Apple for the Newton and are now used in many new-generation personal digital assistants. Briefly owned by Silicon Graphics, the 3-D business was bought back by Pachikov and relaunched as ParallelGraphics, now one of the top 10 Russian software exporters...
...million Internet users today, and its online population is more than doubling each year, according to market research firm BDA China. But making money from the Net in low-income China is even harder than in the developed world, and no amount of ambition or chauvinism can mask red ink on the bottom line. "People thought there would be one or two local players who would make it in China," says Jasmine Koh, regional Internet analyst for UBS Warburg in Hong Kong. "Now it's shifting to be a global game." That means opportunities for the likes of AOL, Yahoo...
...perhaps there is someone in the audience--some fresh-faced first-year journalist, maybe, bright-eyed and ink-stained--who is made uncomfortable by this crushing code of inoffensiveness. Can we never print anything wild and outrageous? he asks plaintively. Must all our writing be little more than mush and dreary pabulum...
Response: the only antidote to the textual impossibility of dialogue. Fame: from the Greek phonei, to speak; famous: to be spoken about. Fame, which takes the written word from its chaste page and breathes life into it. The dream of text: to become speech, imperfect and ink-stained images of itself...