Word: sinclairism
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...Sinclair said that the man was calm and seemed to be "watching to see if anyone was watching, and no one was." She said that no one in the store besides herself knew that the robbery was taking place until after the man had left...
...exceptionally busy day," Sinclair said. The robbery was "like an intense interaction between the two of us, and everything else silenced out," Sinclair said...
...thought he was making a purchase until heleft and she [Sinclair] stood up and said 'We'vebeen robbed," said an employee who was attendingthe dressing rooms...
...Sinclair said the robber demanded that she handover all of the cash in the register. "He askedfor the large bills first, then for the tens, thenthe fives and then the ones," Sinclair said. Afterhanding him all of the cash in the register, shesaid, she was told to lie on the ground until theman had left the store...
...enterprises are very much like the Soviet Union's permanent bureaucracy, the nomenklatura. They have coasted for years under the old system, and they dislike Deng's perestroika because it asks them to compete like capitalists, and capitalism has losers. "Keeping their jobs is their No. 1 priority," says Sinclair Choy, a marine engineer from Hong Kong, who in partnership with a coastal town on the mainland runs a fishing boat-repair business. "Order, stability, calm," says Choy. "That's what these Chinese officials want. Anything that threatens to upset the applecart sets them...