Word: stingings
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...year, when credit was easy and the economy was steaming ahead at a 17% annual clip, the state-owned conglomerate and its 270,000 employees could hardly keep pace with consumer demand. Profits soared. Then came the credit crunch orchestrated by economic czar Zhu Rongji, and Shougang felt the sting at once. Customers slashed their orders, and soon Shougang could not pay its bills. The company last month was forced to take out a $70 million loan from the government to keep operating...
...Bakersfield's white-bread station house, and his new colleagues are naive enough to say what's on their mind. His TV-obsessed partner (Ron Eldard) admits to feeling "a little gypped" that the first black man he has worked with is so lacking in flash. In a sting operation to nab a call-girl ring, Gigante is picked to go undercover as a pimp. He bristles, saying, "I don't see why the color of my skin automatically makes me a prime candidate to portray a pimp." (The captain, bristling back, says he'll get someone else...
...Harvard's women's soccer team felt the sting of a Dartmouth defense which may well be the best the league has ever seen Saturday in a 1-0 loss in Hanover...
...thick, black-rimmed glasses. "I've never broken the law anywhere," he insists, "and I've never, never, in any way, shape or form done anything improper" at Bronx Science. Answering what he thought was an inquiry from a British pedophile society (in reality, it was a postal-service sting), he wrote in 1979 that he was "attracted to boys up to the age of about 16" but added that he was "not willing to engage in unlawful acts...
Twelve-year-old Nicole knows more about AIDS than most children her age. She doesn't have the disease or carry the virus, but she has felt its deadly sting just the same.AIDS has taken both her parents. "I was nine years old when my mother died," Nicole (not her real name) calmly begins her story. "She told me that my father did drugs and died of AIDS, and that she got it from him." Nicole's grownup demeanor disappears, however, when she starts to read aloud a letter she wrote in the year after her mother died: "Dear...