Wall Street Journal (March 5)
“It is the end of the Chinese growth miracle as we know it, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping seems fine with that. The question now is whether he can steer the country onto a new course— and keep the rest of China on board.”
Bloomberg (December 13)
“A sharp increase in China’s Covid infections following an abrupt end to strict pandemic control measures suggests investors may need to pare back on reopening trades, according to Morgan Stanley.”
Tags: Abrupt, China, Covid, End, Infections, Investors, Morgan Stanley, Pandemic control, Pare, Reopening trades, Sharp increase, Strict
USA Today (February 21)
“They have come to an end, the strangest, most controversial, most unwelcoming Olympic Games of our lifetime…. This wasn’t a joyous festival of sport; this was a forbidding fortress of separation.” Furthermore, “the issues emanating from Beijing’s Olympics were far more serious, making the Tokyo Olympics look almost normal by comparison.”
Tags: Beijing, Controversial, End, Festival, Forbidding, Fortress, Joyous, Olympic Games, Separation, Serious, Sport, Strangest, Unwelcoming
Chicago Tribune (October 30)
“With no end in sight, US surpasses 9 million coronavirus cases and sets another daily record.” With a record 86,600 new cases on Thursday, COVID-19 appears to be spiraling “out of control.” Worse yet, “alarming signs suggested the worst was yet to come.”
New York Times (July 23)
“Boris Johnson, to whom lying comes as easily as breathing, is on the verge of becoming prime minister. He faces the most complex and intractable political crisis to affect Britain since 1945…. His premiership could bring about the end of Britain itself.”
Tags: Britain, Complex, End, Intractable, Johnson, Lying, Political crisis, Prime minister, UK
Washington Post (May 18)
“Nothing could be more disconcerting to allies than dealing with an impulsive, ignorant president — one whose future is far from certain…. The 100-day mark was the end of the beginning of Trump’s term. The appointment of a special prosecutor just four months into his presidency might be seen as the beginning of the end.”
Tags: Allies, Beginning, Disconcerting, End, Ignorant, Impulsive, Special prosecutor, Term
The Week (May 10)
“We know how the Trump administration will end. Whether or not Trump ends up impeached, we know that it will end not because of an attempted coup d’état, but because of incompetence and an endless series of shootings in the foot.”
Tags: Coup d'état, End, Impeached, Incompetence, Shootings in the foot, Trump, U.S.
LA Times (July 9)
In the Greek debate both sides are ultimately “fired by unwavering devotion to an abstract ideal, the real costs be damned. But if ancient tragedy has any lesson to offer, it is that an all too real tragedy in the making might be avoided by putting responsibility before blind ideology, asking not whether the end justifies the means but whether the means justify the end.”
Tags: Abstract ideal, Devotion, End, Greek, Ideology, Means, Real costs, Responsibility, Tragedy
Wall Street Journal (July 15)
“India’s state-run telephone company delivered its last telegram on Sunday. We are told an era is ending, as if mankind’s desire to communicate isn’t ageless.” For 163 years, telegrams served a purpose in India, but e-mail, SMS and Twitter are increasingly filling the need. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited had been losing approximately $23 million annually on telegrams since volume dropped to 5,000 daily “from 160,000-odd before smart phones and email.” In the U.S., Western Union eliminated telegrams in 2006 for similar reasons. Ironically, the short Twitter format of “140 characters pushes the limits of verbosity in a telegram,” but of course at greater speed and zero cost.
Tags: Cost, E-mail, End, Era, India, Smart phones, SMS, Speed, Telegram, Telephone, Twitter, U.S., Volume, Western Union
