Word: rice
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...Yuan brightened when she heard it was TIME on the line. She knew about the TIME 100, of course. And she had told another one of Chen's lawyers that she never imagined that she would be married to someone whose name was listed among such notables as Condoleezza Rice, Pope Benedict XVI and China's Premier Wen Jiabao. "I am proud of my husband," she said Thursday, "and I want the outside world to know what is truly happening...
...Clinton Global Initiative. In its inaugural conference last October in New York, Clinton brought together celebrities, business moguls and world leaders from Mick Jagger and Angelina Jolie to General Electric Chairman Jeff Immelt and Starbucks President Jim Donald to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. To be invited to the Davos-style gathering, each guest was expected to promise to do something specific within a year in one of the conference subject areas: worldwide poverty, religious conflict, corruption and global warming. It claimed 300 commitments worth $2.5 billion from that first session. Says Clinton: "After...
...wheel tractor; he earned enough hauling firewood, bricks and grain for his neighbors to pay off the loan in eight months. Liang now clears about $1,660 a year from his business, which his wife Su Yongchang supplements with about $230 earned by raising rice and vegetables on a plot of a bit less than an acre. Su claims to know little about Deng or politics: "I only know that the policies now are good, so that we can get rich." Montreal, Canada Aug. 2, 1976 It is an Olympiad of contradictions. There she stands, poised on the balance beam...
...Hizballah and initially delaying calls for a cease-fire to give Israel more time to finish off Hizballah militarily. A genuine cease-fire would have to address the root cause of the conflict, said President Bush, by which he meant disarming Hizballah. And, he and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pointed out, such a cease-fire could not be allowed to create a "vacuum" in southern Lebanon into which Hizballah could simply return...
...KNOW the Chinese character for "convenient myth" is made up of the characters for "sounds good" and "why fact-check"? In answer to a question about the conflict in the Middle East, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells NBC audiences that the Chinese character for "crisis" contains the characters for both "danger" and "opportunity." Sinologists dispute that often repeated claim, as do many in the Middle East...