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...Electronics With disposable incomes and a penchant for cutting-edge gadgets, youngsters are a key market for firms like electronic-goods maker Beijing Golden Global View Co. "Unlike other electronics companies that have a celebrity praising a product," says Zhang Weimin, project manager at the firm, "we decided to sell our products by using cool, individualistic young people." It helps to offer the right gear. Beijing Golden Global View is expanding its product line from electronic dictionaries to hipper stuff such as digital cameras and MP3 players...
...Another weakness for Blair is the surprising force of "Old Labour," the party members who stress social justice over technocratic reform and have grown impatient with his penchant for the private sector. They rebelled last year over injecting more private money and control into hospitals, and have drawn the line at tuition fees. For some, the unambiguous promise in Labour's last manifesto not to raise them in this Parliament ended the matter, even if Blair's changes wouldn't come into effect until 2006. Others think the Exchequer should cough up the funds to restore the system they enjoyed...
Over the last few years, I’ve threatened to emigrate more than a few times. There was the stolen election of 2000; the first time I witnessed weddings on reality television; and perhaps that tragic moment I first observed our President’s penchant for the word “nucular.” But, though these episodes were certainly disturbing, they take a backseat to what I’ve just learned—Kelly Clarkson, the illustrious Idol, has a chance at winning the presidency. Well, sort...
...actress [who has] ... a penchant for playing a part which produces falsity...
...been that serious about his acting since he was a little lad in a working-class part of London, says his mother Maggie. From her, he inherited his green eyes, a penchant for tattoos (she has one on her back; he has several on his arms) and a love of the stage. She left a job teaching children when she was 40 to study and teach drama. "I don't know how he does it," she says, teary-eyed after seeing Cold Mountain. "I can't see the acting at all." While still in school, young Jude did lots...