Word: tappingly
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...editing, sound mixing and special effects that turn raw film into a blockbuster movie--to overseas firms. More than 90% of the animation for American films and television shows is processed in Asia, mainly in Japan and South Korea. Now, however, the $100 billion animation industry is rushing to tap the deep pools of young, well-trained artists in countries such as Singapore, China, India, South Korea and the Philippines...
...beer than it is to buy a bottle of water." Herring paints the picture of a new domestic alternative to a pint down the pub: "Now, you've got Sky Plus [satellite TV sports channel] and a nice big plasma screen, a keg on tap; you invite a few friends around and you can smoke. Who needs the pub?" A November report on the pub industry by equity analysts Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Capital Markets confirms the thesis that the decline in pubs' beer sales reflects a shift to consumption at home, as well as attitudes to drunk driving...
...think he can. But it's not a question about having financial resources. That's a necessary but not sufficient requirement. I told him that I thought there would be strong support for a third-party candidacy or independent candidacy. I thought that he was someone that could tap into that support very effectively in both social moderation and fiscal conservatism with an agenda of good government and doing what works instead of playing political games and fighting in the parties...
...government's tacit approval of the CNAC-China Eastern alliance marks a potentially significant policy shift by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), the country's aviation regulator. Just as Beijing has opened up its backward banking sector to overseas investment in order to tap the expertise of foreign financiers, in recent years the CAAC has been allowing foreign airlines to take small stakes in domestic carriers, hoping that outside partners could improve airline management. Air China, for example, has a cross-shareholding agreement with Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific, and in 2005 American financier George Soros invested...
...Cheah built his business helping foreigners invest in Chinese companies. But now, he says, that script has been flipped: China wants help investing abroad. When Value Partners went public in November, Chinese insurance giant Ping An snapped up 38% of its offered shares, hoping to tap Value Partners' expertise. "The thing about China is it has taken them a long time to shift from what I call a starvation psychology," Cheah says. "They think they're a poor economy, so they should attract money from abroad. Now they're realizing they should be trying to export capital...