Word: similars
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...these and many other initiatives, the goals of these two campaigns are fairly similar, and the student community will have capable, ambitious advocates at the UC helm regardless of which team wins. That said, when it comes to execution, Hayward and Zhang are the right choice...
...gathering, newly dubbed the Latina Empowerment and Development (LEAD) Conference, brought together around 70 to 80 participants to meet others with similar interests and hear speeches from successful Latina women in a variety of fields...
...unsustainable - and even that it was mostly a mirage. Chief among these naysayers is billionaire hedge fund investor Jim Chanos, who famously sold Enron short in 2001 after concluding that the rosy reports and projections about the company were not based on facts. He has come to a similar conclusion about China, according to Politico.com, and is shorting the country just as he did Enron. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...economic activity has been inflated by a front-loaded stimulus package and a surge in credit growth," two drivers that will run out of steam in 2010. "The chances of a hard landing are increasing," the report warns. "The coming slowdown in China has the potential to be a similar watershed even for world markets as the reversal of the U.S. subprime and housing boom...
...tell if the skeptics are right. China is like the proverbial elephant being described by blind men: anyone can say anything depending on which part they happen to be touching. Jim O'Neill, head of global economic research at Goldman Sachs, is dismissive of the doubters. "I've seen similar sorts of stories about 20 times this year," O'Neill said last week during an interview on Bloomberg TV. "These are generally written by people that obviously just don't follow closely or study China." He maintained that, if anything, China's economic strength is being underestimated. "The latest data...