Word: rung
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...cruelty of a system that enlists so many children and brings success to so few has led even the victorious to question the nation's obsession with Olympic glory. Xiao Jian, a lanky 30-year-old with an overgrown buzz cut, came to the Guangdong Sports Technology Institute?one rung higher on the sports hierarchy than Weilun?as a fencer back in 1989. At last year's national games, he was the men's ?p?e champion. But he was left off this year's Olympic roster due to what he says are complex disputes between his home province of Guangdong...
...name of the couple who doused the flames. A search of the phone book provides no clues, but electoral roll records yield an address for someone with the same surname and an unlisted number. It's miles away but near the park, so the reporter is rung again and sent there with a photographer. All they find are the wrong people, and a pack of dogs. After second deadline the reporter phones in what...
...subs now. Stutchbury and Mitchell have left; barring any major changes, it's now the backbench's call. "Whack it through, mate," shouts Dore. Just before second deadline he notices a name spelled inconsistently in a story. "Sorry to wake you," he says to the reporter he's rung at 11 p.m. As final deadline advances, the newsroom is all silent concentration. Cleaners come and go. While the third edition cut-off is officially 12.30 a.m., changes can be made for another half-hour, and with 15 min. left, deputy night editor Helen McCabe spots a weak first paragraph. Eleven...
...Middle East when she was tapped for chief restaurant operations officer, covering everything from equipment to real estate worldwide. With the company's COO post empty since Charlie Bell took over as CEO, following Jim Cantalupo's untimely death, Babrowski's corporate climb may still have a rung...
...such a widespread manner. Nearly every rung of society is being terrorized. Truck drivers are assaulted on the roads; leading businessmen have been kidnapped for ransom; journalists have been tortured and murdered; and one of the nation's pre-eminent intellectuals, Humayun Azad, was almost killed in February by a gang of knife-wielding assailants. But the wake-up call for many Bangladeshis came last week, when the bodies of two cloth merchants were found beheaded and mutilated in a forest outside Dhaka. Stunned by the discovery, many traders in the city closed their shops or held rallies to highlight...