Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fine-fingered hands do not punch out arguments; rather they escort logic through tangles of confusion, gently prodding reason his way. Perhaps Sonia Ho is right to be hushed, for her son's genius emanates from the depths of his family's experiences, and it is not quite Asian to make a display of one's legacies. But she is also right to be proud, for this is America, and her son is an extraordinary American success story...
After the President's election, Trie became a Democratic fund raiser and by 1995 was working with Huang, at that point a go-go money-maker for the Democratic National Committee, to boost the party's appeal among Asian-American donors. In January, Trie attended a D.N.C. finance-board breakfast at Washington's Hay Adams hotel, where party chairman Don Fowler asked the party's top 110 fund raisers to each raise $350,000 by Election Day. Rainmakers from Texas and Massachusetts balked at Fowler's demand, calling the pace unrealistic. But not Trie...
...more than previously reported. How much Trie raised still isn't known, but the documents show that from one dinner alone, he raised $100,000. He was so successful that Fowler wrote Trie to thank him, noting approvingly that he had been named a co-chairman of a special Asian-American fund-raising-event. Fowler urged Trie to ask for help "if there is anything...
...staff Harold Ickes of the problems with the Trie donations on April 4. At the time, Mrs. Clinton didn't recognize Trie's name until Cardozo identified him as a Little Rock restaurateur. Two weeks later, Trie was named by the President to a federal advisory panel on Asian trade, a plan that had been in the works for months. On April 24, Trie again visited Cardozo, this time handing over $179,000 in donations. Cardozo refused them...
...Hong Kong, where business holds the real power, Tung, 59, has the proper pedigree. C.H., as he is widely known, is the scion of a major Asian shipping dynasty, and was educated at Britain's University of Liverpool and schooled in business on the job in the U.S. He's on a first-name basis with the Asia-Pacific region's political and business leaders, as well as many of those in the U.S., where he co-chairs the U.S.-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Committee with former U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Paul Volcker. More important, his family bridges...