Word: pinged
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...banks have an estimated $12 billion in exposure to subprime debt in the U.S., a figure some analysts believe is understated. Its sovereign wealth funds have lost tens of millions of dollars on poorly timed investments in Blackstone, a private-equity group, and Morgan Stanley. And Ping An Insurance, China's second largest insurer, lost 70% on its $2.7 billion investment in Fortis, the Dutch-Belgian financial-services company that collapsed last week...
...plunged 778 points, and suddenly calls and e-mails to LaTourette's office that had been running 200 to 1 against the bailout leveled out. He said half the callers were thrilled with his no vote but "the other half are looking at their 401(k)s drop[ping] $50,000 in a day, and they call and scream at me and say, You rat bastard, I'm never voting for you again!" Representative Elton Gallegly, a 64-year-old California Republican who voted no, said his hostile-call ratio went virtually overnight from 40 to 1 to a mixed...
...pinnacle of the Sept. 6 Beijing Paralympics opening ceremony came when Hou Bin, a one-legged track athlete, spent five minutes pulling himself and his wheelchair 20m in the air by rope and pulley to light the Olympic cauldron. But to Song Yanan the highlight was the moment when Ping Yali, who as a blind long jumper became China's first Paralympic champion in 1984, carried the flame with the aid of a guide dog named Lucky. "I couldn't take my eyes off them," says Song. "I was really excited, and also a little nervous. There were so many...
...China's first seeing-eye dogs and the first in the capital. Lucky's appearance at the Paralympics opening ceremony was a big chance to promote a kind of assistance for the disabled that didn't exist in China until recently. When Lucky came to Beijing last year, Ping complained on her blog that the Golden Retriever was technically banned under a Beijing rule against large dogs in public places. Police allowed Ping to keep Lucky at her side, but required that she only go out with the dog while accompanied by a sighted person. "I thank them for their...
...Chinese, and I say to the world, Ping-Pong is coming home.' BORIS JOHNSON, mayor of London, which will host the 2012 Summer Olympics, claiming that Britain invented table tennis...