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...there are fears the electricity supply could collapse when Australian-donated fuel runs out in March. About 1,300 public servants are now receiving the $A100 a fortnight salary, but thousands of Nauruans who work for state-owned enterprises haven't been paid for months. Adeang constantly has to explain to people queueing at his office why the government can't give them the $A30 they need for a bag of rice. "There are so many expectations on us to come up with some solutions." Money is not the only problem: most food is imported, and last week Adeang learnt...
...steroids are far more dangerous than, say, carb loading. That justification would be far more convincing if there were any evidence that fans and teams otherwise give two snorts about athletes' health. But that wouldn't explain how we tolerate, for example, football linemen larding up to heart-straining proportions and players hobbling themselves for life by "playing through the pain" (i.e., getting taped and numbed by the team doc). Or jockeys nearly killing themselves to drop weight. Or the very existence of boxing...
...respected brands. By contrast, electronics maker LG failed to establish a thriving business from its shortcut purchase of the TV brand Zenith?though it has recently been much more successful in penetrating global markets by pushing its own brand. Chinese acquirers will face similar challenges. TCL has yet to explain how it will turn around money-losing Thomson, which sells old TV models, and boardroom squabbles with its new French executives threaten to upset the venture. "We don't have much fun in Paris anymore," says an aide to Li Dongsheng, TCL's chairman. Shanghai Automotive, for its part, hopes...
...about thirty years ago” (Marxists believe in an historical dialectic, but not that historical) and it’s been in its present location for the past decade. The staff members, who describe themselves as “a product of the sixties,” explain that, even in 2004, it remains a bastion of the counterculture that Cambridge embodies. “It still has a reputation as an area for radical thought,” O’Leary says. Harvard students have been known to patronize the establishment, and volunteer Jane Sullivan recalls...
...play was, as Donato would explain, exactly the kind the Crimson would need...