Word: rice
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...stronghold for the Democrats, but the northeast region of Isaan is a graveyard. There, Thaksin is a tough act to follow. In None Somboon village, his face still beams from sun-bleached posters left over from a previous election. "Most Prime Ministers never leave their air-conditioned offices," says rice farmer Boon Mithaowan, 49. "Thaksin promised to do things, then he did them." Thanks to him, says Boon, the local irrigation canal was dredged and a new road built through the village...
...When a truck driver is not eating rice, he's eating diesel.' ZHANG YANCHAO, Chinese truck driver, on inhaling exhaust fumes while waiting in long lines to fill up amid chronic fuel shortages...
...doesn't tip his own hand, alas. Rogers doesn't reveal his personal holdings but gives the would-be investor dozens of possibilities, which range from the more predictable (Dongfang Electrical Machinery Co., a generator company) to the more exotic (Zhejiang GuYueLongShan Shaoxing Wine Co., a maker of traditional rice wine). Studying, says Rogers, will pay off: "If you do your homework, buy cheap and remain patient, you should be able to walk over and pick up that pile of cash in the corner that nobody else notices...
...Office after only two short seasons? -Rodney Rice Jr., Belleville, Ill.We didn't want to run out of ideas. Many people make more money on the third and fourth seasons. But we never did it for that. We had a finite story to tell. Also, it became a franchise anyway. The American one is carrying on. Steve Carell [who stars as Michael Scott], just keep working. We need syndication...
...Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C., is that China's Foreign Ministry has relatively little power and largely acts as a messenger to convey policies crafted at higher levels, such as the military. "Everyone seems to think that Yang Jiechi is China's Condi Rice," says Huang, "but he's actually quite low on the totem pole compared with a senior general, to whom he would have to bow and be deferential." Of course, many bureaucracies suffer from communications problems, blurred lines of authority and plain old dumb decisions. But because of its burgeoning importance...