Word: dong
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...crucial dike system protecting Hanoi from the Red River, Kiet had to step in and resolve it. "That's still better than the old days," says a Hanoi bureaucrat. "Then, if you were dying and needed a blood transfusion, you'd have to get Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to sign off." Vietnam's leaders surely know that central control will not work in a market economy--and that Vietnam's future depends on loosening up. Still, old habits die hard...
...central-government revenues come from Ho Chi Minh City's textile factories, shrimp-processing plants and other businesses. The city is a commercial and banking center, as well as the capital of Vietnam's burgeoning oil and gas industry, which generates most of the nation's export income. Dong Khoi (Uprising) Street, formerly Tu Do (Freedom) Street, formerly the Rue Catinat-perhaps Vietnam's most famous avenue-is newly lined with first-class restaurants and gracefully remodeled office buildings. Cholon, the Chinese commercial district, is thriving. Indeed, Vietnam's 1 million ethnic Chinese, long a persecuted minority, are responsible...
...spent every production night for the past 27years at 14plympton Street, helping with layout, driving home stranded Quadlings and cheering on Crimson editors with words of encouragement like "Get out of that chair, you ding-dong! You're not doing it right!" and other less printable material...
...heart filled with happiness. Inside my head, bells were pealing with joy as a song began: "Ding dong, the witch is dead...
...face-off between Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill was partly a Supreme Court confirmation fight, partly a character-assassination attempt. What's still at issue is whose character was taking the shots. After three days of swampy Senate testimony, most Americans were convinced that Long Dong Silver ; was a man the Bureau of Weights and Measures should know about. Not as many were sure who was telling the truth about Hill's claims that Thomas sexually harassed her when he was the Reagan-appointed head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission EEOC and she was a 25-year-old staffer...