The long hours often expected of employees are known as “996” — meaning they start work at 9am, leave at 9pm and work six days a week.
The post went viral, despite being quickly deleted, leading Pinduoduo to claim that it was a fake.
Chinese state media also reported that the social security bureau of the Shanghai district holding Pinduoduo’s headquarters was investigating labour conditions at the company
Indeed, after a ringing endorsement from the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, it has become required reading for conservatives impatient with the current hand-wringing over the alleged plight of the young and immobile.
Standard measures of income distribution amount to snapshots at a moment in time.
For one thing, they measure incomes actually earned by individuals, rather than assigning individuals some prorated share of family income.
Physicists say it is not really a colour at all. Because black is the result of the absence of light, Sir Isaac Newton did not see it on the spectrum of colours in his experiments with prisms in the late 1660s.
It was only when black pigments—made from coal, lampblack or even burned ivory—were successfully mixed with gum arabic or linseed oil that it became possible to create the black gloss that many European artists came to love.
With one side of her face lit up gloriously and the other darkly shaded, it is her eyes that capture the viewer’s attention; in life they were green, but Manet made them profound by painting them black.
Yet civil law systems were far more protective of women’s property than the common law system was.
And it may not seem consistent with the perception of English law as being more individualistic than Continental European legal systems.
New Mexico provides a good example of the impact of Spanish law on colonial women, while New York provides a more complex example of a civil law system (Dutch) giving way to a common law (English) system.
Until recently the consensus was that practical applications would have to wait for large, stable machines, probably at least a decade away.
The first step in building a quantum computer was to conduct plenty of abstruse mathematics on university blackboards.
The trick for such super-early-stage investors is to know when to stick with a risky prospect and when to call it quits.
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revolutionise v. 彻底改变
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第二篇
主题：气候可能在变冷，而不是变暖
第一部分 引子 （第1段）：提出疑问，气候真的在变暖么？
第二部分 事实（第2-3段）科学家发现 最近出现了海水盐都变低的现象
第三部分 推论（第4-5段）根据进一步的分析和推导 地球有可能会进入新一轮冰河时代 而非变暖
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No one is certain where the fresh torrents are coming from, but a prime suspect is melting Arctic ice, caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that traps solar energy.
Having given up its heat to the air, the now-cooler water becomes denser and sinks into the North Atlantic by a mile or more in a process oceanographers call thermohaline circulation.
At some point, the whole system could simply shut down, and do so quickly.
But beyond the specifics of the consultation, there are several other serious issues at stake in this debate.
In their consultation response, the Woman’s Place UK said “it is not difficult to imagine a scenario where the mother may find it difficult to make choices which prioritise her own health and wellbeing if the intended parents are in the room with her, even if they do not actively put pressure on her to prioritise the welfare of the foetus.
An ornate, turn-of-the-century fantasy of Hispanic architecture, the Inn is completely unlike the unornamented adobe structures that existed in the Southwest before the Americans came.
Similarly, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century state courts developed elaborate theories of water rights ostensibly based on Hispanic law, but which bore no resemblance to actual Spanish and Mexican legal traditions.
In contrast to the common law water regime of riparian and prior appropriation rights emphasizing individual property interests, a communal water system prevailed in the Hispanic Southwest.
The reason behind it—longer lifespans—is to be cheered; it does not advance at the speed of a viral infection but with the ponderous inevitability of demographic change; and its full effects will not be felt until far into the future.
Before the pandemic as many as a quarter of beds in British hospitals were occupied by people with dementia.
The trouble is that public-health campaigns have a patchy record and they do nothing for dementia’s most intractable pre-existing condition—old age.
Famous people are often portrayed in ways they do not like, but that is one of the costs of free speech.
Its theme is the conflict between duty and personal fulfilment, which causes pain to cascade down from generation to generation.
It is not surprising, then, that the release of the latest episodes has been accompanied by the sound of remote controls ricocheting off Home County walls.
The reason for concern is that although methane, the main constituent of natural gas, does not linger in the atmosphere for anywhere near as long as carbon dioxide does, it is a far more potent heat-trapping agent.
With a spectrometer mounted on a satellite it is possible to analyse light reflected from Earth for signs of the gas.
When choosing between two suitably qualified candidates to take charge of a company that is performing well, a board is likely to pick a leader who does not appear to be egotistic and self-interested.
As the authors recount, this applies when employees are being assessed by their managers for qualities such as intelligence, decisiveness and leadership.