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“This is a market that is manmade from the start. In theory, it could be unmade but that would be a very, very long haul.” -- Karen Glanz of thePerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Will Philadelphia’s Soda Tax Deliver on Its Promises? - Knowledge@Wharton

Philadelphia has taken the lead among big cities in levying a soda tax to…

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China's dangers are home-made. But the global damage from a credit blow-out would still be immense

China is headed for a financial crisis. It won't be fun for anyone

China's debt-to-GDP ratio has soared from 150% to 260% over a decade

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The secret is in these massive manmade lakes.

This Real Estate Gimmick Could Save the World

One developer has the key to selling luxury homes while helping the environment.

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New Jersey’s problems are magnified by a long history of irresponsible borrowing and spending. In a self-destructive gimmick, the state seriously underfunded its pension plan and used the money to pay for current spending programs. As a result, Mr. Corzine said, the state’s annual debt service now exceeds what it invests in higher education.

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New Jersey’s Warning

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Salts of the Earth Cooking Craze

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Salt -- shaking it's way back into culinary fashion

It used to be that there were two kinds of salt you could buy in supermarkets. There were big boxes and small boxes. But lately, more and more varieties of salt are appearing on supermarket shelves.

Are glossy magazines, cooking shows and retailers trying to make our lives just that bit more difficult? Italy, with its 7,600 kilometres of coastline is, unsurprisingly, one of Europe’s biggest salt producers. Eurovox travelled to its capital, Rome, to discover if the designer salt craze is just a marketing gimmick.
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It is no longer socially acceptable to dump employees on to the heap of unemployed. Loss of market, and resulting unemployment, are not foreordained. They are not inevitable. They are man-made.

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man-made
adjective
artificial rather than natural:
man-made fibres
It's a man-made lake.


artificial
adjective
1 made by people, often as a copy of something natural:
clothes made of artificial fibres
an artificial heart
an artificial lake
artificial fur/sweeteners/flowers

2 DISAPPROVING not sincere:
Their cheerfulness seemed rather strained and artificial.

artificially
adverb
Most mushrooms sold in supermarkets have been grown artificially (= not in natural conditions) in manure.

artificiality 
noun [U]



head
[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL OF DIRECTION] (also be headed) Move in a specified direction:he was heading for the exitwe were headed in the wrong direction

man-made 

Pronunciation: /manˈmeɪd/ 

ADJECTIVE

Made or caused by human beings (as opposed to occurring or being made naturally):a man-made lake

gimmick Show phonetics
noun [C] MAINLY DISAPPROVING
something which is not serious or of real value that is used to attract people's attention or interest temporarily, especially to make them buy something:
a publicity gimmick
They give away free gifts with children's meals as a sales/marketing gimmick.

gimmickry Show phonetics
noun [U] MAINLY DISAPPROVING
when gimmicks are used, especially in order to make a product or activity more successful

gimmicky Show phonetics
adjective DISAPPROVING
gimmicky foods/fashions

トリック ₂ [trick]

人をだますはかりごと。ごまかし。詭計(きけい)。策略。
「―を見破る」「―に引っかかる」

gim・mick

--> ━━ n. 〔話〕 （奇術師の）たね, トリック; うまい手, からくり.
gim・mick・y　━━ a. からくりの.