Word: outfitted
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...Public opinion polls conducted in recent years by the Horizon Group, an independent research outfit in Beijing, show that an almost schizophrenic attitude toward the U.S. extends far beyond the upper echelons of Chinese society. A survey in late 2005 showed that two-thirds of the respondents thought Sino-American relations had improved over the last year and that three-quarters of them liked American culture - but the U.S. was also rated as the world's most unfriendly country toward China. Some 56% said they didn't believe that Americans respect China...
...perfecting an entirely new skill that could change this region as much as have the wars in which he has fought: drilling for oil. Since late November, he has toiled about 9 m aboveground on the first derrick erected in Kurdistan in decades - by a Norwegian outfit using a Chinese rig, of all things. From the top, there is a panoramic view of the hills around his tiny village of Tawke, where 30 families eke out a meager living herding sheep. It hardly looks like the location for a major economic boom. "We are poor," he says, sitting...
...ELIZABETH CORDAY As Nurse Ratched in a West End production of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Alex Kingston gets a pay and status cut but probably a cuter outfit...
...Ghomi, the charge d?affaires of the Iranian embassy, is intent on undermining Washington's mission in Baghdad. Indeed, U.S. military intelligence and the American-backed Iraqi National Intelligence Service told TIME that Ghomi is a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps? elite Quds Force, a special forces outfit much like the Green Berets, with specialized skills in working with local forces and militias. A senior U.S. military intelligence officer claims, ?Ghomi is Quds Force,? and part of a ?full-spectrum effort? by the Revolutionary Guards to garner influence in Iraq. But in an interview with TIME, Ghomi...
...seem, the eBay case deals with the balance of power between patent holders and users, and corporate America is keenly interested in the verdict. Silicon Valley types from Yahoo! to Intel have lined up behind eBay, while more traditional companies such as General Electric (inventor Thomas Edison's outfit) and Procter & Gamble support MercExchange, along with the entire drug industry, whose business model hinges on patent protection...