Word: tensing
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If there's any Chinese who feels a warm glow inside when he sees an American flag fluttering in the breeze, it's Zhan Bingkui. As foreign-trade manager of the Shanghai Flag and Tent Factory, the chain-smoking 50-year-old sells tens of thousands of flags to America...
Nor, in a similar way, was Princess Diana alone during her final public appearance. She was joined by more than a million people in central London who lined the route of her funeral procession; by the 2,000 mourners inside Westminster Abbey who had been invited to attend her funeral...
Stopping the violence in Darfur would help. African tribal groups there took up arms against the government in Khartoum three years ago. The government responded by arming thousands of Arab janjaweed militias who have wreaked havoc on African soldiers and villagers alike, killed tens of thousands of people and forced...
The average American understands the principle behind a car warranty. We never expect the warranty to cover our regular oil changes, smog checks, or brakes. The warranty is, in effect, an insurance policy. If the entire engine were to fail, the warranty would cover a replacement, limiting our losses in...
While it is true that the communities in and around San Francisco have taken a number of laudable steps--constructing a whole new span for the San Francisco--Oakland Bay Bridge, for example--it is also plain that they need to do more. There are tens of thousands of older...