Word: painfully
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...there is still pain - particularly among developers, and the big banks that financed them - because of just how overbuilt urban China has become. Ren Zhiqiang, the Chairman of the Beijing Huayuan Group, a large developer, estimates that it may take to two to three years to work off the existing inventory in residential property across the country. Analysts estimate that there are now about 200 million sq m of constructed but unsold apartments and houses in China, and Ren worries that figure will continue to rise without "tangible, positive incentives" for new buyers. (See pictures of China's demographic patterns...
...never really worked in that location,” said Jillson. Andre N. Davies ’11, a self-proclaimed cupcake connoisseur, has already scoped out Sweet’s competition. In an interview yesterday, he discussed offerings at Kickass Cupcakes, the Harvard dining halls, and Au Bon Pain. “I’m very excited,” he said of Sweet’s opening. “I like extra, extra icing.” As for Forrester’s favorite, it’s a tie. “The vanilla...
...Madoff, you took our money for yourself and gave away our money for yourself. You earned nothing; you did nothing with your life. Your life was ultimately about inflicting pain, taking what you could and holding on to it like a common thief. You understood the irony of it all too, those thousands of false statements representing your false life, a great, mad construction you slowly began to embrace up in your secretive 17th-floor fantasy world, the way a young boy believes he's Superman when he puts on a cape. The difference is you never grew...
...Harvard Registrars: Kane brings the pain...
...pain,” we mean “fascism?...