Word: basic
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...Thankfully, most city residents seem cognizant of basic SARS symptoms, because of an extensive?if belated?publicity campaign. Elementary and middle schools have been closed in Taiyuan, while taxis in both Taiyuan and Hohhot have been disinfected, as have many trains and buses. But information quickly runs dry in the grasslands village of Badian, just a 40-minute drive from Hohhot. There, Mrs. Guo says she's heard of SARS but is mistakenly convinced there aren't any cases in Hohhot...
...price. Gillette is pricing its version at about ?1.50 apiece, slightly higher than Schick (known in some parts of Europe as Wilkinson Sword), while the new Bic is expected to retail at around j1 apiece. That's less than its rivals, but four times the price of its basic one-blade disposable. Focusing on a disposable razor marks a change of strategy for Gillette, which has a 70% share of the world market for razors and blades. The Boston, Massachusetts, firm has been successful in persuading consumers to switch to reusable "shaver systems," including its Mach3 model, where the razor...
...other hand, we teach and review basic skills...[that] were not the primary focus at a college newspaper, what we’d really be doing is teaching more advanced ‘how-to’ problems you may not encounter until later on in journalism,” he added...
...strength of A Problem from Hell is not its protestations against the American government; nor is it the call to make genocide prevention a goal of U.S. officials in order to better reflect basic American values...
Later that afternoon, as she was about to begin an interview with the only openly HIV-positive South African judge, she heard her cellphone—which she had meant to turn off—ringing. When she answered, she found a Basic Books publishing executive on the line offering to take her to dinner...