Word: gao
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Before climbing back onto the bus, Wanjun Gao recollected the infamous three lies of the John Harvard statue for FM. “The statue is wrong. The time is wrong. The founder is wrong,” he said, correctly. Then, tipping his cap, Gao disappeared into the bus, satisfied...
After a two-year investigation, the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last month asking the GAO to further investigate Klausner’s role in the awarding of the grant. The confidential letter was posted on the website of the Cancer Letter earlier this month...
...disclosure came as the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, announced the findings of a study conducted on the IRS. The GAO report said that at some IRS processing centers, refund checks were mutilated and tax forms were left on loading docks. The GAO also said that kinks in the new IRS computer system and inadequate staffing had made matters worse. IRS Spokesman A. Ernest Acosta said the agency was "taking corrective action." Ideally, the difficulties will be resolved soon. Tax-filing season for 1985 is bearing down. AGRICULTURE Catfish Are Jumpin...
...Society and the parents tap, and sometimes smash, the Gaos back into their assigned roles. But the moral shading in Peacock is as rich as the cinematography, and moments of great poignancy?the mother's efforts to persuade the prettiest girl in town to have dinner with her retarded son, the lengths to which the sister goes to defend her brothers from bullies?temper the hardness the Gao children sometimes display. Gu packs his film with vivid period details: boys play hacky-sack with a flaming chestnut, a couple preserves eggs in handfuls of sticky mud, a family's supply...
...duck, the folds of an accordion and the breathtaking flight of a parachute harnessed to the back of a bicycle. When a real peacock appears in the movie's quiet coda, it declines to spread its plumage on demand and the onlookers move on, disappointed. Its splendor, like the Gao children's dreams, remains unfledged and all-too-rarely glimpsed. Fortunately, this is not the case with Gu's talents. He unfolds them masterfully and his Peacock is a marvel that deserves to be admired...