Word: chinatown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first week at the lab, it turned out that a longtime post-doctoral fellow was leaving. We had the obligatory dinner in Chinatown and then made our way to a local piano bar. Not just any piano bar, mind you, but the one that advertised on almost every bus station bench in the city--two duelling pianos, four painists, "Great Balls of Fire" and the like. High publicity equals high security, I thought as I began to sweat...
...have to educate Asian to vote...Hopefully we can elect Asian-American candidates for the future," said chairperson of the Boston Chinatown and South Cove Neighborhood Council Jason Chung. Chung is also the chair of the Chinatown voting education program...
Still, students say they can't help but serve their respective communities, somehow. "It's hard to imagine BSA ignoring the problems of the urban city just as it is impossible for Asian American Association and Chinese Students Association to ignore what is going on in Chinatown," says PBH's Chinatown Adventure program Chair Gene...
...repair unreinforced masonry. San Francisco, says Iwan, more than five years after the Loma Prieta quake, is ``having a great deal of difficulty implementing anywhere near the kinds of retrofit regulations and laws that Southern California has,'' even though ``there are some very hazardous buildings there,'' many concentrated around Chinatown. In an era of government cutbacks, neither the state nor Washington seems likely to foot the bill. Insurance companies are not much help either. After picking up about half of the $20 billion losses from Northridge, most have stopped selling quake insurance...
Frank K. Wong, general manager of China Pearl restaurant in Chinatown, says he advertises in Harvard yearbooks and Commencement booklets...