Word: dong
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...attempted political suicide, it seemed hard to beat. In the run-up to South Korea's parliamentary elections, Chung Dong Young, chairman of the youthful and liberal Uri Party, advised people in their 60s and 70s to "stay home and rest" instead of voting. As penance, Chung resigned his post as his party's campaign head and went on hunger strike. Yet in a land where political haplessness is increasingly the norm, his gaffe apparently failed to dent the party's standing. Instead, voters last week tripled the size of the Uri Party delegation, to 152, enough for a majority...
...boats pulled out. ?We didn?t leave until the mission was over and all the boats headed out together,? says Kerry. He claims that only after the firefight was over-and enemy fire had been supressed-did he order PCF-44 to head back to a primitive base at Dong Tam so Gardner could receive medical attention from the U.S. Army?s Third Surgical Division, based in a makeshift hospital there. But Gardner asserts that Kerry was simply fleeing the firefight. ?He wanted to get out of the river to save his own ass,? Gardner maintains. ?I was ready...
...biology major from Kirksville, Mo. known to friends as “Dong,” was last seen on the morning of Dec. 5 at the Chi Phi fraternity house in Back...
...deflation, widespread business failures, layoffs, loan defaults and shaky banks. And with many other Asian countries retooling their economies to fuel China's boom, the knock-on effects down the supply chain could be devastating. "Overinvestment will lead to a supply shock that will affect the whole world," predicts Dong Tao, chief Asia economist for Credit Suisse First Boston...
Daniel S. Mun, commonly known as “Dong,” was last seen around 4:15 a.m. on Dec. 5 as he left his bedroom to use the bathroom at his Chi Phi fraternity house on Hereford Street in Boston, Tom Holtey, treasurer of Chi Phi’s alumni board, said yesterday...