Word: stalling
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...people die on the ships or are caught at the other end and sent back. Father and son agreed not to tell the young man's mother. She would try to stop him. The night before he left, Chen took over from her as usual at the noodle stall he helped her run. After she went home, he quickly closed up the stall and made his way into Fuzhou, 15 miles away. At the main railroad station, the snakeheads were waiting for him, just as they said they would...
...Fujianese have a centuries-old tradition of emigration, peopling many Chinatowns around the world; the young grow up with the idea of emigrating to join their rich overseas relatives. What China denies many is opportunity. At home Chen was making $120 a month wholesaling fish and running the noodle stall. But he knew that in the U.S. he could earn much more...
Managers must be careful not to swing too far the other way though, warns Olivier Zitoun, CEO of Eveo.com an online digital-video broadcaster. A democratic approach can get messy, he says, and stall the decision-making process...
...hour three, nursing a Merlot in the far-left stall, I staggered out to see a guy with slicked-back hair tell another guy he hoped he was going to the DreamWorks party because he was "the only fun guy here." But then some bearded guy attached to Topsy-Turvy leaned in and said, "Hey, I take offense at that." They ignored him. Topsy-Turvy is the math club of the Oscars...
...husband is suddenly dead, her seven children are in peril, she's in debt to a loan shark, and her best friend has breast cancer. But Agnes Browne, played by the director, remains essentially, somewhat improbably, undaunted. She cheerfully runs her fruit and vegetable stall in an outdoor Dublin market, allows herself to be flirted with by the local baker, yearns for tickets to a Tom Jones concert (the year is 1967). Not that we want for another lesson in the need to be chipper in adversity, but there are a reserve and a realism in Huston's work that...