Word: sheering
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...None of the Chinese developers contacted by TIME for this story would agree to an interview. But real estate consultants and market observers say developers too frequently adopt a "build it and they will come" mind-set. Feasibility reports or market surveys are rare. Plans often stress sheer size over appropriate locations. "A lot of [China's] wealth remains concentrated in the metropolitan bases, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen," says Arthur Kroeber, director of the market-research firm Dragonomics. "But that doesn't mean that those areas can support an infinite number of malls...
...Lady Bird Johnson dwelt in some manner for nearly 70 years she was, said Hugh Sidey, TIME's late chronicler of the American presidency, "as close to being a Godly creature as that anguished realm ever produced." In these last years her admirers (and who was not one?) in sheer frustration at the inadequacy of language to capture her virtues would say over and over again, "Lady Bird is a saint...
...Gore was being characteristically hyperbolic when he claimed the concerts could reach up to 2 billion people on the Internet - sure, and so could this story - the sheer size and spread of the events meant that for a day at least, climate change (or, the rock concerts it has prompted) dominated headlines across the world. But would the Earth have been better off if we all stayed home and did nothing, literally? "That's a fair thought," Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson told TIME before his band's Tokyo show. "It's also a cynical one." He's right...
...model of a Muslim-majority democracy, doesn't usually play host to a murder trial that seems better suited to an episode of The Sopranos. Indeed, the killing of model turned interpreter Altantuya Shaariibuu last October has riveted this country of 25 million. First, there is the sheer luridness of the case. Then, there are the political implications: some Malaysians think it might hurt the succession hopes of Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak. For others, the trial, which opened last month, serves as a bellwether of the integrity of Malaysia's legal system and its burgeoning press. Prime Minister Abdullah...
...lovers Franziska and Gerhard Flögel traveled from their home in Germany to a remote cove in northeastern Spain on July 2 to visit the creator in his studio. They toured his inner sanctum in appreciative silence. They marveled at his unusual materials, his precise execution, his sheer ingenuity. And then, like everyone else at El Bulli, they sat down and ate the master's work...