After Li's eldest son Victor was kidnapped by notorious gangster Cheung Chi-keung in 1996, the tycoon was said to have put in a word at top levels in Beijing. (Li himself brushed off the suggestion.) Mainland police caught Cheung, put him on trial and executed him.
But for me, as the CEO of a marketing idea company, my first reaction in hearing about this idea was, in a word, visceral.
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Their spin is that Bo and his wife were mixed up in dodgy deals that ended in the murder of a British businessman - that they were, in a word, corrupt.
Sarcasm and disdain may work in a 500-word opinion piece in a newspaper but they become tedious over 500 pages of a book.
The critic demolished Pulitzer Prize-winner Cunningham's book about a middle-aged gallery owner attracted to his young brother-in-law in a 1, 000-word review in the Observer last January.
So much so that when the job at Canisius opened in 1992, Boeheim, already Syracuse's all-time winningest coach, put in a good word.
Actual genes are buried in stretches of what appear to be gibberish DNA. Picking them out is a bit like finding the words in a word-search game.
If you do, use it, either by sending your contact an email and asking them if they know who is hiring interns, and whether they can put in a good word for you, or better yet, meet in person with your contact and discuss the internship and potential future at the company.
Reader that I am and wordsmith I fashion myself to be, I take particular delight in hearing or reading a word used in an extraordinary manner.
And 90-year-old Victor Borge left his native Denmark at the start of World War II and arrived in New York in 1940 not knowing a word of English.
In an interview with a website in Los Angeles, Richard Sherman once said it was a word constructed in the same way he and his brother used to make up words in their childhood.
When Grasso replaced William Donaldson as the Big Board's chief in 1994, Reuters covered the story in a 147-word news brief.
They have to bear in mind a single word in choosing their running mates reassurance.
Ideas that could be expressed only as a clunky circumlocution in English can be collapsed into a single word in Ithkuil.
In a word: jobs, More specifically, the kinds of low-skilled jobs we desperately need.
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In a word, most of the movie's tear-jerking plays like a big, fat lie.
In a word, individual investors remain split over the short-term direction of stock prices.
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Oh, and to answer my own question (from that headline way up yonder) in a word, yes.
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The best advice on saving for college, in a single word, is to save.
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They will require workers that are literate, numerate, adaptable, and trainable in a word, educated.
Bill Clinton put in a good word during a trip to Los Angeles last week.
In a word, the fiscal cliff negotiations are about avoiding the CBO baseline scenario .
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In a word, the fiscal cliff deal yields, at best, small, marginal, and even trivial changes.
In a word, relevance, or building relevance for your brand in the context of an active query.
Some kids aren't even aware that they're participating in a word-of-mouth marketing effort on an unprecedented scale.
In a word, AAPL stock price has a several times more huge downside risk than upside potential.
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If he or she can put in a good word for you with your would-be boss, great.
"In a word, it's a great medication, " says Jed Black, a doctor at Stanford University's Center for Narcolepsy.
If your connection is willing to put in a word for you with the target, all the better.
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For balance, let me put in a word in defense of the whiners.
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