Word: olympicsized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Consider: almost half of China's $585 billion economic-stimulus program, announced last November to much fanfare, is earmarked for infrastructure spending on railroads, highways and power grids. Another 25% will go to reconstruct entire towns in Sichuan province that were devastated by last year's earthquake. These are "shovel...
Yu has a flair for the macabre - in one scene, a man who has been tortured by Red Guards commits suicide by driving a nail through his skull - but there's humor in between the horror. Having made a fortune trading scrap, Baldy decides to launch a contest to find...
• Since leaving office in 2004, Locke has worked for a Seattle law-firm, specializing in China. As the nation's one-time top Chinese American politician, Locke has kept in close contact with his parent's homeland. He arranged for Chinese President Hu Jintao to start off his first...
One of the easy knocks against GE is that it board has not kept CEO Jeff Immelt on a shorter leash. He should have been forced out of many of the company's consumer and industrial businesses more quickly. That criticism seems reasonable. Immelt has also hung on to NBCU...
The No. 4 Harvard women’s fencing team (17-1) cruised to its third Ivy League title yesterday with an overall undefeated record of 6-0 at the second part of the championship tournament held in Providence, R.I. After defeating Brown, 20-7, earlier in the day, the...