Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Oct 21, 2013 (I)

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(1) Colin McClelland and Manuel Soque, In Oil-Rich Angola, the Poor Must Leave Slums.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... moving-the-poor-out

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: The authorities’ clearance plan is going smoothly this time
(b) Angola
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola
(independent from Portugal in 1975; section 1 Etymology; capital and largest city: Luanda)

(2) Dexter Roberts, China’s Big Meeting Has a Small Agenda.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... -for-disappointment

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: An overhaul of state companies looks less and less likely
(b) quotation underneath the title in print: “None of the top leaders were present, nor even a vice premier”
(c) “SHENG Hong, director of the Unirule Institute of Economics in Beijing,” a think tank
盛洪/ 北京 天则经济研究所

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(3) Victoria Stilwell, Body Parts for Sale by Desperate US Workers.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... u-dot-s-dot-workers

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Hair, eggs, maybe even kidneys bring in badly needed cash
(b) quotation underneath the title in print: “If worse comes to worst, what could I do?”
(c) The English surnames Stilwell/Stillwell are made up of “Middle English stille ‘calm’, ‘quiet’, + welle ‘spring’, ‘stream.’” (There was a US general Joseph Stilwell, who was in China during World War II).
(d) Nicholas Colas “tracks off-the-grid economic indicators”
(i) off-the-grid (adj): “Unrecorded, untraceable through normal means. <My package was not delivered, and has gone off the grid>”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=off%20the%20grid

The orthodox meaning meaning is “not using the public supplies of electricity.”


(4) Mads Nissen, The Largest Restaurant in the World.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... argest-in-the-world

Note:
(a) Mads (given name)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_(given_name)
(a male given name, a Scandinavian form of Matthew)
(b) QIN Lingzhi  秦灵芝/ 西湖楼 (Changsha, Hunan)