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...strong in women's sports." Case in point: when women's weight lifting became an official Olympic sport in 2000, China captured four out of seven available gold medals, while the Chinese men won only one gold. In Sydney, China's women topped Chairman Mao's famous maxim that "women hold up half the sky" by capturing 60% of the nation's total medals...
...YORK—According to Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, the Fox News Channel is a conservatively biased, pro-Republican network whose “fair and balanced” maxim is nothing less than a lie. A legitimate argument, indeed—and one that calls for a nuanced, gripping and affecting cinematic expos?...
...players from rivals in Germany, France and Britain. Today, however, global capital markets may be starting to play more of a role: Manchester United is traded on the London Stock Exchange, and one of its largest shareholders is American. The west-London club Chelsea look set to debunk the maxim that success can't be bought, following its acquisition by ?migr? Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has added close to $200 million to the team's war-chest for buying as many of the world's best players as they can find. And the fans of Liverpool F.C., whose status...
...players from rivals in Germany, France and Britain. Today, however, global capital markets may be starting to play more of a role: Manchester United is traded on the London Stock Exchange, and one of its largest shareholders is American. The west-London club Chelsea look set to debunk the maxim that success can't be bought, following its acquisition by ?migr? Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has added close to $200 million to the team's war-chest for buying as many of the world's best players as they can find. And the fans of Liverpool F.C., whose status...
...Weight Watchers, which is publicly traded, the stock has been sputtering in a strong market since October 2002, and net income has been flat for two years. The firm gets most of its revenue from memberships, which have been flagging, says analyst Kathleen Heaney at the Maxim Group, a New York City brokerage firm. That's temporary, according to Eliot Glazer, vice president of North American marketing for Weight Watchers. "A lot of what is behind low carbs is pseudo science," he says. He reports seeing a flood of disheartened low-carb dieters come to Weight Watchers as "they find...