[…] almost stateless, of coming to a country which was 'racially challenged', which had a law against Chinese immigration, and which was about to intern its citizens of Japanese origin.

Ms. Wilesmith welcomes deskside dining because she views it as a sign of dedication to the company.

[…] the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents […]

M. Constant's opinion concerning the Chinese, we are sorry to say, has a great deal of truth in it : they are, he observes, of all people the most attached to materialism, they have no notion of spirituality, they are blind fatalists ; their doctrine is far more dry than any other pantheistic scheme : - it supposes the existence of one only substance, without attributes, without qualities, without will, without intelligence ; (we suppose he means the le of Confucianists-see Morrison's Dictionary 6942,) it knows of no motives but blind fatalism, and of no perfection but a blind apathy, without virtue and without vice, without pain and without pleasure, without hope and without fear, without desire and without dislike, and finally without immortality. (Here there is a good deal of Taouism set forth.)