Word: ranging
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...trade is back in full swing, albeit more discreetly than before. Take the Guangzhou Snake Bird Animal Fair Market, the largest animal market in southern China. While many of the market's sellers appeared to be idling away their time one recent day, playing mahjong or smoking, their mobiles rang regularly as restaurants or familiar customers placed orders. "Now deals are usually carried out at dawn or dusk to avoid government inspectors," says Lao Xu, who sells hunting tridents and fermenting jars at the market. "If you want any wild animal, from Brazil turtles to pangolin, I can arrange...
When Roberts spoke last week of the lump in his throat whenever he climbed the marble stairs, it rang true to anyone who had ever watched him in action. And it would match the history and mystery of the court if it turned out that Roberts ultimately alienates conservatives and not those who fear any Republican appointee. Roberts may agree in spirit with those who see the past 50 years of jurisprudence as too expansive and too intrusive but respect too much the way the law is shaped to ride in and blowtorch it. He may just prove willing...
...week that started a million telephones jangling. Eager investors rang their brokers to buy stocks, driving the Dow Jones industrial average up a record 92.91 points to an all-time high of 1792.74. Happy homeowners phoned bankers to refinance their mortgages at interest rates not seen since 1978. Economists called up clients to report that U.S. growth will be more robust than almost anyone had expected. Corporate treasurers got on the speakerphones with their investment bankers in New York City to talk about financing bold projects with multimillion-dollar bond issues...
...control center, cheers rang out and champagne corks popped. Then came the bonus. Half an hour after the screens blacked out, Giotto's signals were picked up again; except for the camera, all of its instruments were still working...
...scholar's grasp of the great man's novels, stories and poems. It was a valuable guide through an intimidating maze of themes and plots; its thoroughness made it a high form of flattery. Field's credo, that a writer's "truest and most palpable biography" is his work, rang with disarming idealism. Nabokov must have been impressed and relieved; his disdain for the genre he defined as "psychoplagiarism" was well known. The acolyte was invited to the author's home in Montreux, Switzerland, where he took the inside track in Nabokovian studies and conducted the interviews that...