Word: lite
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...direct flights from interior Chinese cities to cities in North America. So start playing that forward. You're allowing a class of people in China to layer on a new identity to their existing identity of Chinese businessmen as member of some kind of international business élite...
...China's entrepreneurial élite, the new civility push is also a business opportunity. Private etiquette schools are proliferating to meet demand from yuppies who crave guidance on eating, dressing and working in an international environment. At Shanghai's June Yamada Academy, students pay $900 for a multiweek course during which they dine at a five-star hotel and learn the difference between a fish knife and a butter knife. Meanwhile, at a Shanghai etiquette workshop for HR managers, instructor Liu Wei plucks a man out of the crowd and castigates him for his multihued pink...
...Brother is something that's élite. At one time you had to be a certain color. Now, it's not the color; it's you gotta do this, you gotta know this, you gotta get a letter from this. And I'm doing all of this for what? To be accepted? Rule No. 2 in my book says, "Do You." But I can't Do Me if the only way to get in your organization is to Do You. I will show you kids who might not be statistically qualified but are now running $2.6 billion businesses and took...
...purple orchid named after his father (the Kimilsungia), North Korean visitors gush about the joy of living in a workers' paradise. "Thanks to the wise guidance of the great leader, life has improved so much," a soldier assures us. That may be true for members of the privileged ? lite, of whom we catch glimpses as they are ferried around town in Mercedeses with tinted windows. But how long will everyone else be willing to put up with rice rations and stale elevator music...
...Second Storm Hurricanes Rita and Katrina will change how the Federal Government handles disasters [Oct. 3]. Let's hope the Bush Administration does not use this crisis the way it used 9/11?as an excuse to consolidate even more power in the hands of the right-wing corporate ? lite. We must reverse the trend of allowing corporations to set our national policy. Allen L. Wenger Mountain Home, Idaho...