And that mission was not going to change as Beijing goes through its own changing of the guard this year.
Fast-forward a year, I delayed going to law school in Beijing, and instead lived in Nashville and learned to write songs.
Did anyone ever think that the Olympics in Beijing was going to be a joyride?
We do not expect that Beijing is going to produce a climate change agreement.
At some point, as China's dollar hoard piles up, its middle class is going to itch to get a return on its savings and Beijing's financial control mechanisms may start to slip.
Beijing is not going to let North America out of its acquisition sights.
Here's a way to know which country is going to win the gold medals at Beijing's Olympics without even tuning in.
In the real world, if you hand out flyers for a pizza restaurant in Birmingham to people in Beijing and Mexico City, then you're not going to get the customers you want.
So I don't that that's going to be a trend, but I think, once again, it highlights the awful air quality in Beijing, which is - I think - going to be the biggest story of the games going into the Olympics, of course, in five months.
So far Beijing seems to be going for power-projection on the cheap -- through missile development.
"Having the disappointment from Beijing it's obviously going to be a big year for me, " she said.
"Olympics in Beijing that's going to be a lot of fun, " Gao says.
Beijing, of course, is not going to admit to a formal ban, a clear violation of its World Trade Organization obligations.
Mr. BURFOOT: Well, everybody is going to be looking at the sprints because that is where we will get the most medals when it gets to Beijing.
In the long run Beijing usually does what it says it is going to do, although the execution may be concealed with deception.
The poll inquiry comes as Beijing and some leading Hong Kong businessmen try to get momentum going for a second term for Tung in 2002.
"Going forward, we expect headline CPI to ease further, providing ample room for Beijing to take more policy easing steps to support growth, " HSBC economists led by Qu Hongbin wrote in a report.
My new life in the power city of Beijing consisted in taking lessons from Professor Angry, practicing, and going to elementary school.
In China, "there is going to be a lot more work after Jan. 1 than before, " says a Beijing technology consultant.
Smoking is supposedly prohibited in Beijing taxis but most of them reek of cigarettes anyway, since no taxi driver is going to pick a fight with a customer who lights up.
Beijing, not satisfied with its virtual monopoly on global production, is going from one predatory practice to another.
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