Word: roach
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...year. China's growth in the fourth quarter, at 6.8%, was the slowest the country has experienced in seven years. Compare that figure to the first half of 2008, when growth was more than 10%, and in 2007, when China posted an eye-popping 13% rate. As Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, put it: "China hit a wall late last year...
...grass surrounding Roach in a courtyard near the Peabody Museum was peppered with small, razor-sharp stone blades, which Roach, a budding bio-anthropologist, said had been used throughout the afternoon to slice meat for the roast...
...shade of trees sheltering him from the hot Saturday afternoon sun, graduate student Neil T. Roach could be heard clacking rocks together, fashioning stone tools for the archaeology department’s annual goat roast...
...basement a few meters away from Roach, graduate student Katherine D. Zink’s electric knife buzzed through what appeared to be some rather tough goat meat...
...British army marched to bond over their shared and distant homeland. Ever since, the event has been more popular abroad than at home - though Dublin's days of revelry is no poor showing - with especially large festivals in Boston and Chicago. "The parade is a celebration of diaspora," Roach said. With hundreds of Irish nationals living in Beijing and over 50,000 Chinese emigrants composing the largest non-European community living in Ireland, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of heritage across borders. Patrick, sainted for ridding the isle of its snakes among other feats of faith, was himself...