The word 'fang' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun, meaning a long, pointed tooth of a carnivorous animal, or as a verb meaning to grasp or seize something. Example: The wolf lunged forward, fangs bared.
The inattention of China's leaders to the stockmarket contrasts starkly with their obsession with bank restructuring because the banks' troubles are easier to understand, hazards Mr Fang.
"We are in a bind right now," admits Mr Fang.
Insiders say Goldman has negotiated future ownership rights for Gao Hua through complicated private agreements with Mr Fang.
Wholesome food, unwholesome profits A great British bounder Beijing rules Activate the money star Three degrees of trial separation Wrong number ReprintsThe main target of this strategy, known as zhua da fang xiao ("manage the large and let go the small"), are China's 118,000 industrial SOEs, which make up the bulk of state firms.
Rather than inquire about a patient's sex life, doctors may ask if you have much time for fang shi (room business).
Some people (such as Cai Fang of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Ross Garnaut of the Australian National University) thus conclude that the Lewisian turning point has arrived in China that is, China has depleted its surplus labour and the period of cheap labour has ended.
Albert Park, of the University of Oxford, and Cai Fang and Du Yang, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, have analysed China's 2000 census and 2005 mini-census (covering 1% of the population), which include migrant workers.
Most of the attention over the past few months has focused on the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges the Iranians will be allowed to keep, how much of the low-enriched uranium they produce will have to be shipped out to Russia for re-processing and what steps will be taken to de-fang the heavy water reactor under construction at Arak (which offers an alternative plutonium path to a bomb).
Rather than making excuses for keeping it, Mr Obama should be exposing its awfulness and leading the campaign to de-fang it.
Some progress has also been made on a plan to de-fang the Arak heavy-water reactor that could provide Iran with an alternative plutonium path to a bomb, by adapting it to a design that produces far less plutonium.
Fang Fang, a managing director at J.P. Morgan, the bank that advised on the Xugong sale, calls the deal: "a change in thinking.
