Word: preparedness
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The secret to success in cities like Chengdu is going local. French hypermarketer Carrefour, which opened its fifth outlet in Chengdu in January, overhauled its prepared-food department to cook up the chili-laden specialties favored by natives, including marinated rabbit heads and roasted duck jaws. Samsung reopened its operation...
All arts are not created equal.These days, if you want to be a successful artist, chances are you’ll want to be a visual artist and not a poet. If you happen to make it big as a painter, you might just auction off something for half a...
Prosecutors were satisfied with this arrangement and were prepared to let the jury decide the matter. So was the judge, until Wednesday, the third day of the court-martial.
In the late afternoon of Sept. 27, I was taken to the same school building I had gone to in July. This time I was the object of the ''struggle'' meeting, attended not only by the Red Guards and the Revolutionaries who had come to my house but also by...
''What do they want?'' I drowsily asked my maidservant. ''They didn't say. But they behaved in a very unusual manner.'' ''Tell them I'll be down presently,'' I said. ''Give them a cold drink and some cigarettes.'' I did not hurry. I wanted time to think and be ready...