Word: yao
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...years. Basketball in China developed a higher profile when homegrown athletes showed they could star in the world's toughest league: the NBA, which plans to open a chain of retail outlets on the mainland in coming years, starting with a flagship store in Beijing. The success of Yao Ming, the towering center of the Houston Rockets, and now Yi Jianlian, the 7-ft. (2 m) forward for the Milwaukee Bucks, sends the message to kids on the playground that there's no limit to where they can end up if they're good enough...
...Shervington sighs. He has learned a lot of Pashto during his six weeks in Afghanistan, but the phrase he uses most often is yao wradz, meaning...
...deeply moved by your performance in Dead Man Walking. How do you feel about the use of capital punishment? -Yao Fei, Nanjing, ChinaI am viscerally against it. I think it is done capriciously and arbitrarily, depending on color and income. I don't believe it is the government's place to kill citizens under any circumstance-especially when it is done badly...
...Chinese lettering and unremarkable name, the fast-food outlet in a Shanghai shopping mall looks like many others selling local fare. East Dawning is crowded with customers on this winter evening, and they're sampling a menu that includes pork fried rice, marinated egg and plum juice. Stanley Yao, a restaurateur from Hong Kong who is opening a sushi joint nearby, dines here once a month. The food is "a little too oily," he says, but he likes the soy-milk drinks, and "the prices, of course, are very reasonable." (A meal of noodles, tea and custard dessert costs...
...mail.” At least partly thanks to the spread of the internet and of American technology, English words are appearing not only here in Spain but worldwide: the French “faire du snowboarding;” a Chinese teenager “yao mai yi ge DVD” (wants to buy a DVD). The globalization of English is, it seems, unstoppable. In response, political institutions around the world are attempting to halt English’s spread. The Real Academia Española (RAE)—the Spanish institution that publishes...