Her hours-long lecture is a mesmerizing romp of set pieces and extemporaneous patter, jumping from Christopher Columbus, to Egyptian pyramids, to the Great Wall, to Bill Gates.
Carlson is arranging guided tours for visitors to Kodak's medical-imaging facility in the Olympic Village and the press center (where Kodak will process 5 million digital images), along with tickets to carefully selected Olympic events and perks like visits to the Great Wall and trips to Beijing's Silk Market.
Anyone able to perceive the Great Wall from the moon would have to have an eye keen enough to see a human hair from a distance of two miles.
To orchestrate his 1993 Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10, 000 Meters, for example, he and some assistants suspended approximately six miles of fuse in the Gobi desert, beginning where the Great Wall ended.
On May Day, the highway to the Badaling section of the Great Wall was jammed for more than five hours.
The stress is overwhelming, and investors finally race to the Great Casino of Wall Street, decide to go all in and roll the dice.
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The trip included visits to the forbidden city and great wall of China in Beijing, the terra cotta warrior museum in Xi An and the Bund and French Concession in Shanghai.
From making the Statue of Liberty disappear, walking right through the Great Wall of China to levitating over the Grand Canyon, Copperfield is constantly redefining the realms of possibility.
The writing was on the wall for years prior to the Great Recession, but we chose not to act or even acknowledge the issues until it was too late.
For cruisers looking to learn more about Asian history, there are several sites worth visiting on extended shore excursions, in addition to the obvious ones like the Great Wall and Angkor Wat.
Upon seeing an individual in a Beverly Hills parking lot talking away on the kind of wireless later used to great effect by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, all three of us were taken aback.
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Though this same political class brought great harm to the economy and Wall Street itself for bailing out its losers in 2008, the pay earned is more than justified.
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London (CNN) -- Coal slag heaps up to 450-feet high may not seem the obvious candidates to join a list that includes the pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, and Yellowstone National Park.
So it comes as no great surprise to learn that The Wall Street Journal has also been hacked.
From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
Padlocks have since sprouted from the Great Wall in China to the Brooklyn Bridge to the fence of a freeway overpass in Silicon Valley.
Failing that, establishing a work history in the industry, particularly through an internship with a Wall Street firm, can be a great supplement to the resume and one that attracts the attention of recruiters.
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Instead of building a great wall across the Xingu to create a massive reservoir, Belo Monte is designed as a run-of-river dam, a technique that harnesses the natural flow of the river to drive the turbines.
As 2013 approaches, Armstrong could be forced to choose between keeping his promises to Wall Street or making good on his pledge to Huffington to create the next great American newsroom.
Tomorrow and the next day I hope to have a chance when I'm in Beijing to see the majesty of the Forbidden City and the wonder of the Great Wall.
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If we managed to dig a several hundred foot vertical shaft and the soil was feeling generous, not collapsing inward and waiting for us to build the wall, the challenge of casting this concrete would still be great.
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If the PR executive succeeds in convincing Forbes.com to cover something, the client will most likely say great, but what about The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times.
Laurence Tisch, and Wall Street great John Whitehead, who begged him to turn off the spigot of easy money and rock-bottom interest rates.
Some industry experts say that Great Wall may be the only one of the local car companies to ultimately survive as an independent company.
The interest groups that led the Democrats astray, according to Cost, have come to prominence in the Party since the Great Society: public-sector unions, elements of Wall Street, feminists, environmentalists, and members of Congress who represent districts drawn to be majority-minority.
To combat the surge in storms and waves, the government has built what locals call the Great Wall of Male: a concrete barrier 1.8-metre (6 ft) high that partly rings the capital.
It was absolutely just as important to push through Wall Street reform to ensure that the kinds of things that led to the great recession, that led to the near collapse of our financial markets, could not happen again, and that taxpayers would not be on the hook when institutions failed.
Economists on the left and right have cited the recent housing bust as proof that homes are not great investments, suggesting people would be better off leaving their money to the tender mercies of Wall Street speculators.
Under Mr Bush, working for Goldman Sachs, the greatest of Wall Street's then-great investment banks, seemed in itself to be a qualification for high office.
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Yesterday, Pfizer and Schering-Plough both released earnings that exceeded the expectations of Wall Street analysts, but company control of costs had a great deal to do with these companies' strong performance.
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