Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 1, 2013

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(1) Dorothy Gambrell, Textiles[:] How the World Clothes America.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... rld-clothes-america

Quote: “Italy is the No 1 supplier of wool suits to the US by value, but exports fewer suits in total than either China or Indonesia

My comment:
(a) summary in Table of Contents in print: Americans wear the whole world on their backs
(i) back
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/back
(Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged: have on one's back  to be burdened with; also, get off someone's back; on someone's back)

(ii) Compare

shirt
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/shirt
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: lose one’s shirt; the shirt off one’s back)
(iii) Compare
monkey (n): “a desperate desire for or addiction to drugs —often used in the phrase monkey on one's back; broadly : a persistent or annoying encumbrance or problem”)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monkey
(A) The phrase “monkey on one’s back” is American English.
(B) monkey. Online Etymology Dictionary, undated
http://etymonline.com/?term=monkey
(“To have a monkey on one's back "be addicted" is 1930s narcotics slang, though the same phrase in the 1860s meant "to be angry." There is a story in the Sinbad cycle about a tormenting ape-like creature that mounts a man's shoulders and won't get off, which may be the root of the term”)

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(2) Adam Williams, Nicaragua Wants a Canal It Can Call Its Own.
(“On June 20, Honduras announced plans to work with a Chinese company on a Atlantic-to-Pacific railroad to boost trade across the Central American isthmus”)

My comment:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: A Chinese billionaire says the project ‘will change the world’
(b) quotation underneath the title in print: ‘We have lots of doubts that this is a serious and viable project’
(c) The preceding statement is made by “Esteban Polidura, a Latin American analyst at Deutsche Bank.”
(d) There is no need to read the rest.


(3) Evan Applegate, Student Debt Explodes.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... udent-debt-explodes

My comment: So, like China and Taiwan, US also has had 高等教育擴張. In 1990s, the statistics was that American adults with bachelor’s degree accounted for ~24% of population; nowadays the benchmark is approaching 31%, according to the graphic.

(4) Glen Carey, Saudi Arabia Barricades Its Border, US-Style.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... r-u-dot-s-dot-style

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: King Abdullah builds towers and hires guards to thwart migrants * * * and ‘protect the kingdom from outside influences’
(b) For the past year, the barrier is built on its southern border with Yemen.
(c) Talking about “US-style,” Israel has that, too.