a"In other words, the trend is of growing activism by shareholders to prevent unmerited rewards, or excessive pay relative to how the business is doing. It is not a campaign against big pay per se “换句话说,趋向是增长的行动主义由防止无功受禄奖励的股东或者过份薪水相对怎么事务做着。 它不是...
In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?. 出自-2015年12月听力原文 This finding supported ConAgra’s decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than ...
Perhaps no other term this year defined the growing wariness between the world’s two largest economies. It began, movie-like, with Americans noticing a mysterious white orb in the sky. Some watched as fighter jets circ...
China is a nation of words. When an emperor met with misfortune, he would immediately change the name of the reign period in hopes of turning the country’s luck in the year to come. What used to be the Twelfth Year of the Martial Advent would suddenly become the Inaugural Year of the...
Price-based group-buying has been one of the fastest-growing businesses for Meituan in the past few months. It competes directly with Douyin’s group-buying packages, featuring products from brands in the top 50 cities—similar to Douyin—while aiming to offer lower prices. According to...
When John was growing up, other kids felt sorry for him. His parents always had him weeding the garden, carrying out the garbage and delivering newspapers. But when John reached adulthood, he was better off than his childhood playmates. He had more job satisfaction, a better marri...
The Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan fiascos are a powerful reminder of the moral lapses and human tragedies that the U.S. and some of its allies were responsible for in those countries.” In other words, it is not entirely inconsistent for the “Global South” to both condemn the Russian...
tweaking of my slides, no more digging for photos online to perfectly express an esoteric idea. I’m about to be introduced, and it’s up to me to make a hundred people in a lecture hall care about something that has been churning and growing and evolving in my head for almost six ...
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. —E. O. Wilson 3 The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past...
Hua Hsu’s memoir,Stay True, was also a gem this year. Small but not sleight, it’s a story of deciphering a distant father, growing up, and the ways loss sticks with us in ways unexpected. Two speculative novels that I finished late in the year were Vauhini Vara’sImmortal King Rao...