Bloomberg BusinessWeek, May 11, 2015 (I)

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(1) Bruce Eihorn and Anusha Ondaatjie with Aipeng Soo, A Rare Setback for Beijing’s Foreign Policy.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... -meets-rare-setback
(“ 'I don’t think China is just going to pack up and walk away,' says Sarah Graham, a lecturer in foreign policy at the University of Sydney")

Note: summary underneath the title in print: A change in regime in Sri Lanka blunted Chinese influence


(2) Enda Curran, Fion Li and Peter Coy, The Hot Money Cools on China.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... ools-on-the-country
("Louis Kuijs, Royal Bank of Scotland’s chief China economist, estimates that China lost $300 billion in financial outflows in the six months through March. Deltec International, a Bahamas investment firm, puts the number even higher.  This is an historic reversal. * * * China’s official foreign exchange reserves fell $260 billion between June and March [9 months; 3 months longer than Kuijs' examination]. * * * the money leaves China in a variety of ways. Some escapes illegitimately, by skirting strict currency rules, and some of the transfers are approved by authorities * * * Analysts differ on how much of the money leaving China is hot. * * * [China presently haas] $3.73 trillion in reserves")

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Some $300 billion has been moved out in the past six months
(b) the summary in Table of Contents: China’s latest export: Money
(c) China’s foreign reserve peaked on June 30, 2014 at $3.99 trillion.
(d) "Stocks [in China] have gotten so high that investors worry there’s no upside left"

upside (n): "an upward trend (as of prices)"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upside
(e) "Still, some economists see it as a warning. 'The fact that we see money flowing out at all is reflective of some doubts creeping in about the stability of the economy,' says Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economics research in Hong Kong at HSBC Holdings. 'If everything was fine and dandy in China you would buy property, buy equities, or leave your money in a bank account, because the returns in China are still higher than overseas.' ”

dandy (adj)" very good"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dandy

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(3) Lauren Etter, Don’t Mess with Knife Lobby.
www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... amendment-expansion

Quote:

"Almost half of US states regulate switchblade knives, whether by a limit on blade length or an outright ban, according to Knife Rights. Many of those also regulate other types of knives deemed dangerous. Cities have their own regulations, leaving a patchwork of rules that critics say confuses knife owners.

“The right to bear knives isn’t a familiar concept even though millions own blades that could be considered illegal for cooking, whittling or working in the garden. They’re the second-deadliest weapon behind guns in the US. In 2013, almost 1,500 people were killed by “cutting instruments,” according to figures from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Almost 8,500 were killed with firearms. * * * Many modern restrictions are rooted in Reconstruction and were designed to keep weapons from newly freed slaves, according to David Kopel, a Denver University law professor who has studied the Second Amendment as it relates to knives.  After the 1957 Broadway musical ‘'West Side Story’' featured switchblade-wielding teenage gangs rumbling under a highway, Congress in 1958 banned interstate commerce of the knife and several states enacted their own bans.

My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: A chef, a survivalist, and an NRA board member fight bans on blades
(b) the summary in Table of Contents: The right of the people to keep and bear knives shall not be infringed

This is a wordplay on Second Amendment to US Constitution: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
(c) The online title of a Bloomberg report by the same journalist is: Knives Are the New Guns in Lawmakers' Second-Amendment Expansion

The BusinessWeek article is shorter and carries an illustration of various knives.
(d) "a 'Joy of Cooking' co-author who travels with a 7-inch Santoku knife for slicing thyme-stuffed pork loin roasted on a spit over a campfire. * * * The group [Knife Rights] began in 2006 after Doug Ritter, a manufacturer of survival kits, and Ethan Becker, who oversees the cookbook his grandmother wrote in 1931, found common ground over a belief that bans were anachronistic.  Becker, a Paris-trained chef"
(i) Irma S Rombauer, Joy of Cooking. St Louis: AC Clayton, 1931

Following Irma’s death, the book has been updated by her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, and subsequently by Marion's son Ethan Becker.
(ii) Santoku
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santoku
(Japanese: Santoku bōchō  三徳包丁; The word refers to the three cutting tasks which the knife performs well: slicing, dicing, and mincing)

Japanese Wikipedia says the knife was invented )without identifying a person] after World War II when Japanese eating habits changed dramatically compared with before. It further states, "三徳の意味は「三つの用途」を意味" (translation: 三徳 means "three uses").

(e) "On April 29, a Texas legislative committee heard testimony on a bill that would repeal a ban on daggers, swords, spears and the Bowie knife, a blade inspired by a defender of the Alamo. * * * The bill remains in a House of Representatives committee."

Bowie knife
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_knife
(The Bowie knife obviously derives part of its name and reputation from James Bowie, a notorious knife-fighter, who died at the Alamo)
(f) “The chef [Ethan Becker] often carries a traveling cooking bag that contains a whisk, tea towels, a zester and his favorite knife. He deploys his utensils to prepare recipes on the road.

For "tea twoel," see towel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel
(section 2 Types of towels: A tea towel or drying-up cloth ([British] English), or dish towel (American) --with a close-up photo)