Word: steeled
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Summers said yesterday that he based the remark on several works of demographic history, including UCLA geographer Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1997 book, “Guns, Germs, and Steel...
...Shanghai. Chinese supermarkets, traditional medicine, tai chi and feng shui have hit the suburbs, and moviegoers are broadening their taste beyond Hong Kong's martial-arts kickfests. A Tianjin-born property billionaire whose projects have reshaped Sydney is inspired by Shanghai's buildings (fewer columns, more concrete, less steel). Australia has had such infatuations in the past. First it was Britain, then the U.S. and Japan. In the 1980s it was China; now, after a pause, it's China again. But this time, the life force is different: you can sense China's velocity and intensity, a pull and push...
...ocher landscape of the Pilbara, in Australia's remote northwest, you'll see what China's appetite for minerals can do to a region - and for mining companies and their shareholders. In 2004, Australian iron-ore exports to China increased by 41%. In such a strong market, Chinese steel producers agreed to a 20% price rise. But if miners had been able to dig up the ore and ship it out faster, the Chinese would have bought even more. Mining company Rio Tinto has been selling iron ore to China for three decades. It has vast interests in the Pilbara...
...Paddington, the highlight was when the Dorchester based Dis-N-Dat Steel Pan Band got a small group of audience members out of their seats and dancing. “With the Dis N’ Dat band, I think the crowd really appreciated their performance. It was great to see a number of people dancing on the floor and having a great time...
...didn’t. Instead, with nerves of steel, Herrmann induced a high fly ball down the line that first baseman Josh Klimkiewicz snagged easily in foul territory...