Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrew S. T. So '87, who helped to found the Hong Kong Club last year, says cultural clubs can help "people to become more aware about how diverse the United States' Society...
...Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Mexico City: John Borrell, Laura Lopez, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott
...almost as soon as the agreement was signed, the U.S. began charging that it was being violated. The main culprits, in Washington's view, were Japanese manufacturers who continued to dump semiconductors, either directly or through middlemen, in such Asian markets as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Washington was as sure of that activity "as I'm sitting here," declares Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. In January the Reagan Administration privately warned Japan that some kind of retaliation was likely unless the practice stopped. Washington finally conducted an investigation and satisfied itself that dumping had taken place. The Administration's preliminary...
...avoid disappointment a visitor should have realistic expectations about the restaurants in China today, most of which are below standards set in Hong Kong, Taipei and New York. Despite the country's ancient traditions of cuisine, most chefs now are out of practice when it comes to fine and careful cooking, and few dining-room staffs know how to serve in anything like first- class style. War, revolution, poverty and a Maoist regime that considered embellishment a manifestation of bourgeois decadence have taken their toll. "We lost the thread of our culinary tradition," says Hu Yulu, the retired chef...
...Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Sam Allis, Cathy Booth Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Johanna McGeary Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: Dean Brelis Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: William Stewart, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Ottawa: Peter Stoler Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: John Borrell, Laura Lopez, John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Gavin Scott