Word: roading
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Wednesday, the team hosts Quinnipiac, and then it embarks on the long road trip to Cornell next Saturday...
...family is the most important thing. If you destroy the family, how can society exist?" says Peiyuan, sitting in a car on the road to Yueyang, five hours north of his home in Changsha. This is a journey into the dark past for him. Yueyang is where he was sent to prison in 1969 for 11 years during the Cultural Revolution, accused of being an antirevolutionary rightist. His wife left him because he was politically tainted, taking their three-year-old son with...
...peaceful solution. I even went to China to meet Chairman Mao. We had several good meetings. In 1955, as I was returning from China, I met a Chinese gentleman along the way. He was returning from Tibet. I recall telling him sincerely, "While I was coming on this road to China, I was full of suspicion. Now I am coming back, full of hope." But soon that disappeared...
Beside the sofa road-test issue, there are plenty of other reasons why this $40 billion industry might find e-commerce a risky road to take. Online furniture stores face costly returns, deliveries that can't be left to Federal Express and skeptical manufacturers. None of that is news to Andrew Brooks, CEO of Furniture.com Nevertheless, he thinks he can convert customers by making online sofa shopping much better than the showroom variety. Brooks is hoping to win consumers with features such as a program that allows them to click and drag pictures of furniture into a room...
...Scholastic Assessment Test is like the riddle of the Sphinx, an ordeal by questions that can make further progress on the road of life very iffy. Right answers put you on your way to Prestige U. The wrong ones could give you a lifelong personal stake in the debate over the minimum wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup...