Word: liu
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...club of hapless traders who have squandered fortunes in global commodities markets?think Nick Leeson, who bankrupted 232-year-old Barings Bank in 1995, or the Sumitomo Metals trader who blew $1.8 billion in 1996?add a new member: Liu Qibing of Beijing's State Reserve Bureau (SRB), whose wrong-way bet on copper prices may cost the Chinese government tens of millions of dollars...
...According to copper traders who dealt with him routinely over the past several years, Liu had taken "short" positions in copper in recent months?borrowing the industrial metal at current prices to sell to others, hoping the price would fall before he was due to replace what he had borrowed. Traders say he built up a huge position, shorting some 100,000 to 200,000 tons of the metal. But because copper prices have soared lately, Liu and the SRB?a secretive state agency responsible for buying strategic commodities?may have to absorb big losses, possibly up to $100 million...
...Asian tour, but that has hardly cooled their ardor for the Governator-few here know that the two are from the same political party or that Arnie mentioned the Tiananmen massacre in his GOP Convention speech last year. "If I lived in California, I'd vote for him," says Liu Tianyu, a project manager for a multinational firm in Shanghai. "I don't know much about his politics, but he has a very charming attitude...
...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 tie. "It's a well-known fact that President Clinton's good taste in ties won him many votes," says Liu...
...less flattering way to characterize that kind of approach: Alito can be seen as overly focused on details and technicalities while missing the fundamental values embedded in such matters as job discrimination and jury selection. "He approaches law in a formalistic, mechanical way abstracted from human experience," says Goodwin Liu, a professor of constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley...