Word: hin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hong Kong is not the only force for change on the mainland, it is the most advanced and sophisticated one. Mainland firms will be hiring Hong Kong's expert middle managers, who will be disseminating their "subversive" Western ideas. "Step by step," thinks Bill Chak Hin Fa, a Hong Kong teacher and CD producer, "China will become more like us." It may turn out that Hong Kong will change China far more than China can hope to change Hong Kong...
...real world. But a double standard of comfortability seems to be at work in this mean logic. Certainly WASPs have the need to feel comfortable on this campus, and no one faults them for retreating into their final club lairs. (I know, I know, you have a black (two!) Hin those clubs, and a handful of Jews.) Of course, women also have such a need, and no one faults them for getting together in the Lyman Common Room. And surely Jews have the same need, and they are not faulted for spending time at Hillel...
Midway up the trail we met Trieu Van Hin, the party chief of Suoi Pai hamlet, close to the crash site. He had led a squad of villagers to hack some of the foliage away from the trail, clearing our path. Almost exactly 26 years earlier, Hin had been one of the first people to arrive at the scene of the crash, less than half a mile from the present location of Suoi Pai hamlet...
...continued to argue at the crash site, squatting on what appeared to be the cowling of one of the F-4's engines. Hin, the hamlet party chief, tended to agree with Phe but said he had left before the burial to attend a meeting in Phu Yen. When he returned to the crash site several days later, the men had been buried. Pin said the graves lay deep in the jungle up the mountainside -- though he could not remember exactly where. According to Phe, however, the site was only 15 ft. away. He quickly located one of the spots...