And bankers are vying for the prestige that comes with advising on landmark dim-sum deals.
Would you be better off if Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs had been dim-witted?
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Our fellow-passengers, well-scrubbed young aides and one or two dim-looking senators, chuckled nervously or simply looked baffled.
Dim-sum bonds have been the Chinese government's most visible effort to allow its currency to trade outside the country.
Europeans bought about 9% of a China Development Bank dim-sum bond and 8% of one sold by Beijing Enterprises Group, Dealogic said.
European investors are taking a bigger bite out of dim-sum bonds, giving a fillip to the swelling offshore market in China's currency.
The majority of dim-sum investors so far are in Hong Kong, which since mid-2010 has been designated by Beijing as a laboratory for yuan liberalization.
Ms. Chan says she likes the bohemian feel of Sai Kung, which on weekends sees throngs of residents congregate for outdoor meals at local dim-sum stalls.
Large, state-controlled lenders China Development Bank Corp. and Export-Import Bank of China are planning to pitch dim-sum bonds in London to investors, said people familiar with the matter.
The list includes dim-witted, power-crazed princes of the realm and witches, chief among them Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer, here, as in "Hairspray, " wonderfully full of rage about her lost youth).
We are too dim-witted to understand that taxpayers often seek out tax preparers because they have rental properties and become subject to the Cost Recovery, Passive Loss and At-Risk Rules.
But London is growing faster than other financial centers, such as Singapore, as a hub for offshore yuan payments, including payments for currency trading, imports and exports, and dim-sum-bond settlements.
Many want Nato's future to be - perhaps not dim - but toned down into a defensive alliance, rather than a bright force in the world, lighting up the night sky over the Middle East.
Chef Pui Gor of Tim Ho Wan, a cheap, hole-in-the-wall, dim-sum-only restaurant with a cult following, makes a contemporary version of a bean curd skin roll, filling it with light shrimp rather than the traditional fatty minced pork.
"Hong Kong is still the major center, but this has gone beyond Asia, " said Augusto King, Royal Bank of Scotland's co-head of debt capital markets in Asia, talking about investors' interest in dim-sum bonds, also known as CNH bonds, where the "H" stands for Hong Kong.
The word on the street is that Microsoft is determined to call the next Xbox anything but the "Xbox 2", since they're supposedly convinced that dim-witted consumers will assume that the PlayStation 3, on account of it having a "3" in its name, will sound more advanced than an Xbox 2.
And even if a bright 13-year-old and a dim 18-year-old are studying the same thing, it may be a bad idea to teach them side by side.
The NXT's dim blue-on-gray LCD panel seems a throwback to a distant era, and creating graphics for it is awkward.
And when they aimed at Sirius they could see the dim white-dwarf which orbits what is the brightest star in the night sky.
So we join the rich in beautiful dining rooms, like The Peninsula's Mei Jiang (peninsula.com) where we eat exquisite dim sum - rolled noodles with black beans and chilli, snow pea pastries, roast pork puffs so buttery they're like pig shortcakes - and are treated like pashas.
Suddenly, common areas become overwhelmed with impatient commuters packed into dim, low-ceilinged spaces, waiting and waiting.
Their message that a good life can be had outside baseball comes off as a dim and high-minded consolation prize.
By entering the control panel, you'll find a night mode that offers a super-dim clock and alarm display for bedside duty, though we wish this mode could be triggered automatically by light sensor (very early Classics had sensors, but for whatever reason, they were later removed).
Small-business owners agree and see a dim future for the near-term economy.
To complement the speed of the f1.8 lens, the camera's low-light mode automatically adjusts the ISO sensitivity up to ISO 12, 800 to take sharp, full-resolution photos in dim conditions, and an easily accessible built-in pop-up flash and AF illuminator brightens low-lit subjects, reduces red-eye and fills in dark areas.
The poured-concrete floors and dim lighting lend a hip, casual feel to the experience-on a recent evening visit, men (a mixed bag, including attorneys and artists) outnumbered women by about two to one.
Officials take a dim view of European-style welfare systems, which are said to beget laziness.
How many CEOs end up hiring dim, unqualified brothers-in-law or grandkids who are taking time off college?
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