Word: delta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amazing," says Bao Ninh, a prominent writer and war veteran from the North. "Fifteen years ago, we were very dogmatic. Now it is almost impossible as a writer to describe what is happening." From the border with China in the north to the rice mills of the Mekong Delta in the south, the California-size country is humming with activity. Hong Kong investors have been allowed to open a casino near Haiphong, and Westerners are bidding to develop tourist sites along the scenic coast between Danang and Nha Trang. Hanoi, long a city of bicycles and moldy old colonial edifices...
...factory to make tires. "We are stuck," says Tran Le, deputy director of the company. "We have to get [provincial government] approval to spend $30. We have ambitious targets, but until we are independent, the foreign companies don't want to sign a deal." Rice farmers in the Mekong Delta, traditionally Vietnam's breadbasket, face a similar problem. In 1990 the government allowed them to sell on the open market, a move that helped make Vietnam the world's third largest rice exporter, behind the U.S. and Thailand. But rice is now deemed a strategic commodity and thus...
...however, the best blues is still decades old. Last year Columbia re-released King of the Delta Blues Singers, a superb collection of songs by blues trailblazer Robert Johnson. The original recordings of these performances in the 1930s were crudely done, and for this release, some of the sonic flaws have been smoothed over. Johnson died in 1938, but his songs-such as 32-20 Blues and Come on in My Kitchen-still radiate a devilish charm and plucky inventiveness. Newcomers may have taken the blues, but Johnson reminds us that they haven't gone very...
USAir was just one among 21 vendors at the fair. Other airlines included Delta and American Airlines. The fair also included car rental agencies such as Hertz and Alamo, and hotels such as the Hyatt, Holiday Inn and Sheraton Commander...
...Travel agent Amanda P. Williams '96said that new policies like Delta's have had "nobig effect" at the Harvard Student Agenciessubsidiary. "Students are not being charged forour services," she said...