Word: duan
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Vietnam's parade route to prosperity, though, has taken a few detours. In April 1975, party leader Le Duan promised a television and a refrigerator in every home within 10 years. Instead, there followed what Vietnamese call "the 10 bad years," during which orthodox communist policies and a costly occupation of Cambodia made Vietnam one of the world's poorest countries. In 1986 Nguyen Van Linh, a southerner, took over with a call for gradual reform. In 1989, as communism seemed to be collapsing elsewhere in the world, Vietnam flung open its doors to foreign investment. The economy has been...
...first-year taking classes in the department, Allen D. Duan '95 says an engineering professor already "knew his name and knew everything about what I wanted to do and where I wanted to focus my studies...
...encouraged me to discuss with him what I want to study and how I wanted to approach it," Duan says. "He cared more about me as an individual, rather than just pushing me through engineering...
...want to do research on the cutting edge it is not the best place," Duan says, "but for an undergraduate program with an educational basis it's very good...
...does have set office hours but pretty muchany afternoon students go in as if it were officehours," Duan said...