Word: lu
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...Lu turned to see a tall, black trenchcoat-clad man with slicked-back hair and heavy black boots about 40 feet away...
...face was calm and expressionless," said Lu, 34. "He was looking forwardat the school and walking slowly...
Maxime LeBleu was nibbling on a lunch of Japanese rice and vegetables with classmate Eugene Lu outside Dawson College's downtown Montreal campus yesterday, when the pair heard an odd rapid staccato popping...
...South Korea and Taiwan, where makers of low-end products, beset by competition and eroding margins, have in recent years been trying to make the transition to more sophisticated products. Shenzhen is trying to jump-start that transition by removing obstacles facing inventive startups. Six years ago, Xian-Ping Lu left his job as director of research at an R&D center for a pharmaceutical firm in the U.S. and, with other researchers, planned to set up their own company in China. Although they considered cities like Shanghai, Lu and his team chose Shenzhen. "We really felt there...
...What's good for Lu is good for Shenzhen?and all of China. As the nation's economy roars ahead, growing 11.3% in the second quarter, more parts of the country will face the same challenges of rising costs, labor shortages and aggressive competition. Chinese employers "cannot forever have cheap labor," says Hong Liang, chief China economist at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. "They cannot just count on low-cost manufacturing." Soon the entire Chinese economy may be faced with the painful transition Shenzhen must confront today. Shenzhen is "trying to do what the country needs to do," says Chipscreen...