Word: twistings
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...Then, of course, there's the current North Korean nuclear drama?with the latest twist unfolding in Beijing just last month. After months of equivocation, China, North Korea's last remaining quasi-ally, consented to join the U.S. in talks with North Korea about Pyongyang's nuclear violations. Beijing graciously agreed to host the meetings and committed Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the deliberations. The U.S. sent Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly. And the North Koreans? They sent a worker bee: Li Gun, deputy director general of their Foreign Ministry's American Affairs Bureau. Officials of that rank...
...income. Other factors—such as the peculiar accounting treatment of stock option compensation, differential treatment of overseas income, subsidiary income and pension obligations—account for large amounts and a large fraction remains unaccounted for. With the growing globalization of firms and the demographic twist we are working through continuing unabated, these wedges (and consequent discretionary opportunities) are clouding the true picture of how firms are actually performing. As such, enforcing uniformity would reduce uncertainty over what true profits are thereby furthering the interests of unsure investors, tax authorities and firms...
...woman, and will premiere in May. Last Sunday, the would-be stars gathered at News 24/7, a hip restaurant in the Financial District, in an atmosphere that was suprisingly relaxed. Their first task was filling out a form reminiscent of college applications, only with a romantic twist. The reality show prospectives then participated in a group interview with an NBC casting manager. No decisions were made that day.Most of the participants took the possibility of rejection in stride. Jeanne, 31, a one-time model, has a laid-back attitude. “I’m just going with...
...sparks excellence like competition. Substandard products get weeded out, inefficient firms go bankrupt and better goods get produced. But not everybody likes competition. Bureaucracies often fight to defend substandard products by insulating themselves from competition. At Harvard, the age-old impulse to avoid competition has just taken an ironic twist: members of the Economics Department, that bastion of free-market fundamentalism, voted on April 9 to prevent one of their own from offering an alternative...
...into a bad habit back in the fall when it was still sore, keeping my weight way back and pushing off,” Klimkiewicz said. “I wasn’t getting any twist on it because I was taking my whole body out of the swing. I developed some muscle memory into that, so I watched myself on video to figure out what I was doing wrong...