Word: shun
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...classic Sichuan food with Western-inspired settings. The result was South Beauty, one of the nation's first restaurant chains, which has $25 million in sales and more than 3,000 employees in 20 locations. Zhang, 47, is eyeing Europe and the U.S., again rebuking usual wisdom. She will shun any location in an urban Chinatown...
...they are all the same. Oh, no. Today’s vegetarians come in all shapes and sizes. But they share one thing in common: they shun meat. Wait, rewind. That’s wrong too. Some of them do eat meat. Confusing, I know...
...what kind of change? It's a question that puzzles even Harper's supporters, who watched him transform himself from a crusader for limited government into a family-friendly mainstream politician. That shift was partly an expression of pragmatism in a nation that tends to shun extremes. But it also reflected a rare political trait: the ability to rise above the ideological-hothouse atmosphere of Reform Party politics in the west to become a leader capable of attracting support from skeptics. His core economic conservatism is unlikely to have changed as much as some suggest--Harper is not and never...
...march, in the movement, to turn around and go back to the church." Lawson joined a heated debate in the middle of Main Street, surrounded by pleas for calm as well as battle cries of "Black Power!" and "Burn it down, baby!" King was torn between his pledge to shun violence and his promise never to abandon the movement faithful. Most others yelled to evacuate him since he presented a target of opportunity, and King aide Bernard Lee pulled King and Abernathy among swirling followers down McCall Avenue toward the Mississippi River. Lee bulled and dodged interference until he flagged...
...very specific about not allowing wires from the outside world into their houses. They can't use electricity from public-utility grids either, which you would think would mean having to buy a new cell phone every two days. It turns out, though, that while the Amish shun cars, they are actually pretty clever about jury-rigging car batteries...