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...urbanization it has undergone. Few people own private cars, but all companies provide executives with chauttered vehicles and Taipei has the largest number of taxis per capita in the world. The finer points of urban motoring are lost on this horde of new drivers. Traffic is a series of right-hand turns from the left-hand land, and left-hand turns in the face of a charging wall of motorcycles. Massive traffic jams are a new, common problem...
CYNICS, according to Oscar Wilde, are those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Faced with the vast menu of life, they gaze exclusively at the right-hand side-until, at last, they forget why they came in. For Christmas and the New Year, then, let this be their gift: to lose their jaded tastes, their ennui with ordinary extravagance and to gain an appetite for value as well as price. If they must commit the venal sin of self-indulgence, let them learn to do it in style...
...head like a boxing champ, then scurried for the security of the piano bench. There he launched energetically into his own Troublesome Ivories, which turned out not to be troublesome at all. At the end of W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues, Blake set off a series of feathery right-hand twirls up the scale that must have been what was originally meant by the oft-abused phrase tickling the ivories...
Brown tallied next as goalie Ben Brainiest missed a high cross shot which will then headed into the nets. The seventh goal like the fifth was a slicing toe kick which landed in the upper right-hand corner of the goal...
...operations to other executives. Rockefeller, the bank's largest single shareholder, owns about 1% of Chase's stock, worth some $17 million; last year he collected more than $1,000,000 from Chase in salary, dividends and interest. Though he had high praise for his new right-hand man, Rockefeller, who looks younger than his 58 years, insisted that he would not be stepping down soon...