Word: gu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graduate students Yoshi Futamura, Eckart Lange, and Tsay-Shing Yuan made up Harvard's first team, undergraduates Michael Levin and Yi Gu and grad student Kefeng Liu were on its second team and the third team included undergraduates Louis Tao and Captain Ken Yoon and grad student...
...Gu-steal...
...paradoxical effects of the transformation is that some of those who join the party these days--and all Chinese are free to do so except those directly implicated in the excesses of the Cultural Revolution--are joining not out of ideological conviction but out of straightforward pragmatism. Gu Dehua, a 28-year-old tailor in Shanghai who earns about $70 a month, enrolled in the party apparently in much the same spirit as a Western counterpart might sign up with the Rotarians. Did Gu see a contradiction between the Communist vision and his eagerness to collect material possessions? "Communism...
...majority of New Yorkers the most palpable effect of the influx is culinary. Does any other city on earth have Tibetan, Peruvian, Afghan and Ethiopian restaurants? The Kam Sen grocery store in Queens draws buyers of Korean cha jang gu soo noodles and fermented Chinese "thousand-year-old" eggs packed in mud. The store sells eight kinds of soy sauce. In Flushing, a little way down from the Japan Sari House and an Italian restaurant called La Giocanda, the Bharat Bazaar has sacks of dried red chilis, deep purple mustard seeds, cloves and pistachios, and rents Indian videocassettes...
...result of that change in attitude, Costa Rica has become a haven for refugees from the Sandinista regime, a role that has not gone unnoticed in Nicaragua. In recent weeks, Sandinista-inspired agents have been arming and instigating Costa Rican squatters to take over land in the area of Guápiles, 25 miles northeast of San José, the capital. A Sandinista agent two weeks ago tried to plant a bomb in the Costa Rican headquarters of a Nicaraguan dissident group. The device exploded prematurely, killing the agent...