Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tournament was a good experience for us," said Crimson forward Peri Wallace. "Even the worst team there, Central Connecticut, ran an excellent quick hit offense that gave a lot of the teams trouble. To play against that kind of competition can only be good...
...farther inland, I find little that is charming or especially exotic. Just a mostly drab and dusty country, a perfect backdrop for the tedious and too often unrewarding nature of daily life. Still, the people seem energetic, if fitful; a fifth of the world's population in a cage. Good, hardworking people who deserve better than the suffocating Communism that limits their enterprise...
...business serving the needs of hundreds of well- educated women who by their late 20s are desperate for husbands because men with less schooling are reluctant to marry them. In Chengdu the Xinhua bookstore owns a flower shop, a hair salon and a clothing boutique whose manager gets his goods from "a guy in Shanghai who has good guanxi." In Shanghai itself the city's world-famous acrobats attract bigger audiences by sponsoring fashion shows between tumbles. A university in Guangdong has branched out to invest in a three-story bar in Shanghai whose top floor, called Lovers' World, features...
Leaving behind a wife and four children, two of whom are Seattle cops, Quan returned in 1982 to "do something for China -- and myself." But certainly not because of any romantic longing for his roots. "You know what they say about the good old days," he says. "They are the product of bad memory...
...back to China, Quan stopped in California to pick up some orange- tree saplings. "You know the Chinese were the first to grow orange trees," he says. "But like a good deal else that the Chinese invented first, they had forgotten how to do it." Today almost all the villages around Quan's 300-acre farm, which may be the largest private landholding in China, are growing oranges...