I think the Arial font is pretty.

Western countries' governments had given their imprimatur to financial firms to do almost anything they please.

That has angered most people, who have been paying a dear price for the practice.

It's apparent that financial firms' activities often cause negative externality, in Economics' terms. For that matter, some high financiers must have swooned when people and their democratic governments realized it.

When getting refused, it is in order to accept the refusal gracefully and then talk to other candidates.

That's the beauty of free market and free society.

A player occupies more space on a tennis court than on a basketball court. So, intrinsically, playing tennis is more costly than playing basketball.

"For the most part" is an interesting idiom.

Sentences run like this: "for the most part, so and so." But where are the other part(s)? :-)

When you see 10 successful entrepreneurs, you see at least 9 resolutes among them, I think.

I've become increasingly appreciative of jeans' sophisticated yet no-frills style.

Gee. ABInBev, headquartered in Belgium, owns Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Beck's, Labatt Blue, so on and so forth.

Many people run away with the notion that they can achieve things alone.

Maybe that's why securities markets across the world are saturated with individual investors.

"Then that's what your friend's business is doing. Let's watch his future destiny," J said.

To be in tune with the current emotions and feelings of young Canadians is different than to be in tune with the market demands of Canadians.

I used to mistake "better half" for "the better part".

Well, that half is better than this half. And that part is better than this part.

Boeing's Super Hornet fighter jet (超级大黄蜂战斗机) is interesting to watch.

It's involved in a dogfight for governments' contracts with Lockheed Martin's seemingly more glamorous F-35, which has failed to deliver so far and become more and more like a sitting duck if you will.

The word "ashore" looks more poetic than "aforesaid", although both appear antique.

This pic is of a restaurant courtyard in Beijing, China. Lovely, isn't it?

Reminiscent of the lifestyle of Chinese people of previous generations.

See http://www.foodnut.com/i/No-16-Courtyard-Restaurant-Beijing-China/No-16-Courtyard-Restaurant-Beijing-China-Courtyard.jpg.

The restaurant info. is at: http://www.foodnut.com/425/no-16-courtyard-restaurant-review-beijing-china/.

China's state-run banks can always get away with lending huge sums of money to relatively incompetent state-run companies, which may not even boost employment.

Is unwriting history a crime?

"I think I'll just go with a Linux single booting, and add virtualized Microsoft Windows if needed," J said.

In a world with an abundance of crises, we still do what we do.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. (大英百科全书公司) owns the venerable reference book. And it owns Merriam-Webster Dictionaries, beside others.

Interestingly, it is not a public company.