Word: shard
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...Punters who believe they can find gemstones in the scrap heap face one other glass shard. When SOEs go public, government entities continue to hold up to 70% of the shares. Bejing in effect banned the sale of these shares, so the state would maintain corporate control. But in June 2001, at the height of the market bubble, the government announced that it would allow the sale of some "nontradable" shares and use the proceeds to fund a national pension scheme. Investors panicked, fearing a flood of new shares would drive down prices. Although the government quickly reversed its decision...
...Shaken, the retired corrections officer saw the driver's-side window of his minivan was splintered and the roof had a hole "the size of a 50 piece." A policeman stopped to help, but Cable, 53, says he could not convince him that the shard on the floorboard had come from a bullet, and the officer went...
...layer have most likely given her skin an unattractive, leathery quality. Aside from this, there was something about the idea of identifying the “real age” of my skin through some sort of carbon dating procedure that made me feel like a rare Grecian pottery shard...
Some victims' families received only a shard of bone to put in a coffin; many got nothing. Genelle's family got her back with a crushed right leg and a few other injuries--but basically whole. Relatives held a joyous 31st-birthday party for her in January, after she had fully recuperated. By May, she was walking without so much as a leg brace, an accomplishment that astonished a doctor who had told her she would walk with one for the rest of her life...
...poses his wife and kid in front of the rubble of WTC Building 7, the nearest devastated building to Century 21. It is now eight stories of molten, molded metal. Twisted beams project from the seventh floor like a scarecrow ghoul, its head soldered to the shell of the shard. Two decades ago, some government arts agency would have paid Richard Serra a bundle to devise and execute this idea. Even now, it has a weird... not beauty, but aleatory artfulness. In the current issue of a newsweekly (but not in THE newsweekly), the architect Bart Voorsanger says the steel...