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Обвал азиатских акций в прошлом месяце застал по крайней мере полдюжины менеджеров китайских хедж-фондов врасплох, заставив их нести убытки и обдумывать следующий шаг Си Цзиньпина.

In baseball, the Mendoza Line is the batting average at which a good glove/no bat middle infielder, like 1970s shortstop Mario Mendoza, can stay, barely, in the major leagues. In his 9 year career in the big leagues, Mendoza averaged per 162 games .215 batting average / 1 homer / 25 RBIs. (For the kids, he had a lifetime OPS of .507.) Baseball players live in dread of sinking beneath the Mendoza Line, at which point their days in The Show are over. Mendoza looks like me if I were a 1979 Mexican...