The reason Western banks and businesses have been willing to invest so heavily in this Communist state, despite their dreadful experiences in the former Soviet Union, is that they are mesmerized by the magic phrase "a market of a billion consumers"–the largest market in world history.
It was a magic Spanish phrase that fell easily from my father's lips, a reference to a place that curiously seemed to belong to us, even though New York didn't belong to us.
Music biz blather-bingo-players were eyes-down-for-a-full-house by the time Duncan threw in the magic phrase: "In the past, you'd make money from the album and subsidise it by touring.
Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter who secretly watches as 40 thieves hide their booty in a cave, the door to which can be opened only by the verbal command of "Open, Sesame!" He later uses this magic phrase, steals riches from the cave, and lives a prosperous life.
All include the magic phrase "scientific studies show".
Fans of the magic phrase seem to have forgotten that, in the book, it doesn't work.
Grafting onto the lesson of the presidential primary contests, Patrick J. Buchanan unveiled a retooled stump speech today for his lagging third-party candidacy, packing this year's politically magic phrase "campaign reform" into its every jot and tittle.
Then all we have to do is wait for the magic phrase "flat-fee unlimited" to come to other corners of life: like plane tickets, movie theaters and health care.
David Kay, the U.S. weapons inspector chosen by the C.I.A. to lead the team searching for W.M.D. and the missiles to deliver them, told Congress on Oct. 2, 2003 -- more than three months before Bush adopted the magic phrase -- "We have discovered dozens of W.M.D.-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections".
