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...Chinese companies have felt the thrill of shopping abroad before?and have later come to regret it. The first celebrated takeover came in 2001, when cell-phone designer Holley Group bought a NASDAQ-listed Californian company called American Champion Entertainment. Only later did the Chinese learn that American Champion's assets amounted to little more than a children's TV show called Adventures with Kanga Roddy. Chinese firms today still aren't rich enough to buy top-flight companies, but they do have money to spend. Lenovo earned $135 million in its last fiscal year on revenues of $3 billion...
...Everyone will tell you that you should get a job and you should be secure, that’s especially true of your mother (but she’ll come around), and the only thing you have to regret is spending the years 22 to 25 of your life locked up in a prison, in some cubicle, which I do,” says Snyder...
...including Lebanon, Nigeria and Yemen as well as 23 others on Harvard’s buck. Moreover, the policies prohibit the College from granting any academic credit for study abroad experiences there? While there are valid concerns about the risks inherent in traveling to some of these locations, we regret that at a time when the College is trying to encourage international experiences, it has put insurance considerations ahead of pedagogy...
...national media, with plenty of hand-wringing about combat stress and rules of war to remind us that this was not the way America behaves at war; this was a painful transgression. U.S. ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte even took the rare step of publicly expressing America's regret over the shooting, although there was also widespread support for the Marine shooter in the domestic media...
...approval. “Mighty nice,” she said. And I suppose it is. But it also emblematic of my becoming someone I never thought I’d be; I can never hear “Silver Bells” without feeling a twinge of regret...