The role as head of the civil service will be hived off, after a competition, to a top mandarin running a government department.
As a Mandarin speaker with a small company, she often had the edge over larger, more bureaucratic Western and Japanese companies.
As Dodington speaks the Shanghai dialect with a Southern drawl and Lee chats in Mandarin with a Californian twist, Fu, too, has discovered the connection between his musical notes and the city that effortlessly blends East and West.
When a local Cantonese speaker objected to the noodle-eating in bad Mandarin, a quarrel erupted.
Sorvino is a Mandarin-speaking Harvard University graduate who spent a college year abroad in Beijing.
The Chinese seem to have regarded him as a mandarin, which he was, defining that word as a senior civil servant behaving with careful correctness.
He is, however, a mandarin of the new school: instinctively open, naturally beguiling, a manager and a motivator.
You may think this blindingly obvious, even to a former Treasury mandarin, but Lord Burns has a serious point, which is that the leading hound does not always kill the fox with a single bite.
Third, the novice's chief credentials were that he had been a mandarin in the construction ministry.
Now demand is strong enough that specialists are considering whether Mandarin teachers need a fast-track credential process.
One day James Linen from Time magazine at The Mandarin offered her a public relations job in New York.
Had he lived in old China Sir Alec would have been regarded as a mandarin, for which there were nine grades.
At Piedmont High School in the Oakland Hills, there are 14 students in this first-year Mandarin class, a mixture of Asian, white, African-American and Indian.
As a Mandarin speaker and the former U.S. ambassador to China, Huntsman appears to have all the qualifications necessary to build a stronger relationship between the two countries.
As a member of the Republican Party, which is generally considered favorable to business and China, and a Mandarin speaker, Ambassador Huntsman is well qualified to speak on the subject.
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Last week, Lexmark's gentlemanly chairman (and until May, its well-paid CEO), Marvin L. Mann, settled down with the Digital Tool in the stately lobby of San Francisco's Mandarin Hotel for a chat.
On January 15th a young Mandarin-speaking girl dropped some dried noodles she had been nibbling on a Hong Kong underground train.
For drinks with a view, try the Mandarin Hotel at Columbus Circle for a spectacular panorama overlooking Central Park.
It also highlights a next step for Apple's retail strategy: Jung, who is fluent in Mandarin, made Avon a force in China.
Siri is going international: In addition to English and a handful of other languages she will now process Spanish, Italian, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese -- a nod to Apple's growing popularity in China.
It may take little more than a web connection and a little Mandarin fluency.
Paradoxically, knowledge of the local language, like Japanese or Mandarin, is not a prerequisite for effective communications for organizational development.
Four weeks later, he had talked his way (speaking English and Mandarin helped) into a job as John Lone's double.
This sheer numerical dominance, plus the fact that China has the world's fastest-growing economy, has made Mandarin Chinese attractive as a foreign language for more American students.
Having studied for five years under top Chinese professors, he now co-writes learned papers on Eastern medicine in Mandarin, drawing on a deep knowledge of ancient Chinese philosophy and cosmology.
Conversations in Mandarin, Cantonese and a rich variety of accented English competed with the rhythmic beat of authentic Cuban jazz, courtesy of Roberto Santamaria and his band on tour direct from Havana.
Her high-end restaurant Mandarin, which was a fixture in Polk Street and later Ghirardelli Square neighborhoods through the early 1990s, focused on the classic northern Chinese and Shanghainese dishes she ate growing up in a wealthy Beijing family.
Tonight on Decision Time on BBC Radio 4 I chair a discussion with a tabloid editor, the former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, a campaigner for Hacked Off, a former Culture Secretary and a senior mandarin.
Yet it was a Treasury mandarin, Sir Steve Robson, who dreamt the whole thing up in the first place, and two secondees working for the Treasury, Adrian Montague and Shriti Vadera, who led last year's protracted negotiations with Mr Kiley.
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