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...trick for China now is "to regulate private capital without cutting off funding sources for healthy private companies," says Karin Finkelston, China representative of the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank's private-finance arm. And increasingly, Beijing has been welcoming private capital that it barred in the past. In June, regulators approved the country's first two private-investment funds. Both plan to invest several hundred million dollars raised from private firms in Wenzhou. Such funds are still barred from lending, but managers expect approval in the future...
...function at whatever stage of recovery they can attain. I know plenty of folks who plan to nurse their anti-Bush ire, using it as a motivating tool to work even harder for a Democratic victory next time. Such chronic rage may sound unhealthy--but it did the trick for Newt Gingrich's troops in the wake of Bill Clinton...
Sykes' hooker performance is so strong (she could undoubtedly have turned a trick) that the Chicken Ranch manager asks Sykes if she can put her picture on its website. Since this is another form of promotion, Sykes briefly considers it in the limo ride back to the Mandalay Bay. Finally, she sighs and says, "I can't run for office with my picture on the Chicken Ranch website." The woman really is planning to do every job in the country...
...trick is to consciously manage the intake of sweets. According to experts at the Joslin Diabetes Center, even children with diabetes can eat candy, so long as they make allowances for the extra sugar. For example, if a child packs away a small candy bar, which typically contains about 15 grams of sugar, then she should eat 15 fewer grams of carbohydrate at the next meal--say, half a cup less potatoes. (A simple calorie database, available at calorieking.com can help you find substitute foods...
...apologized, but she didn't even really need to apologize. I know how tough it is, and actually I know those trick questions...