Every Chinese character is pronounced as one syllable. A two character word will be two syllables. Most of the characters in Chinese have just one pronunciation, but there are a few that make life difficult. In this post, Iâm going to cover all the common characters that can be pronounced different ways.
For a small, new company, the prevailing wage requirements and administrative costs of the Davis-Bacon Act had a particularly devastating effect on the ability to successfully compete for federal contracts. The Act required that Dash pay his workers almost $19 an hour, regardless of their experience or skill levels.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics pegged the price of a pound of bacon in urban supermarkets at $4.92 this past June -- up 14 percent from June 2012 and another all-time high. Good growing conditions for corn have kept prices of hog feed down, so there's no reason to cry  aporkalypse  quite yet.