Word: xian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
Boeing's top official for international development, Lawrence Clarkson, insists the company would have fewer jobs for Americans if it did not abide by China's demands: for example, in shifting half of the tail-section production for its 737s from Wichita, Kansas, to Xian. "If we hadn't moved work to China," Clarkson says, "we wouldn't have got orders." China is expected to spend $185 billion on commercial aircraft over the next 20 years...
...Chiang Mai Zoo in 1990. Since then he has bred the females twice a year. He admits that his long-term goal is to persuade Thai authorities to allow him to breed tigers and sell their parts, after they die naturally, to medicine makers. A traditional-medicine specialist from Xian, China, is already seeing patients at the farm, which doubles as a clinic. So far, the Thai authorities are dead set against raising tigers for medical use. ``They hope we will permit commercial breeding,'' says a Royal Thai Forestry Department official. ``It will never be allowed.'' Still, proprietors...
...them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...