Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London Times called it a "fine old imperial sight." As the royal yacht Britannia steamed into Victoria Harbor last week, a shore battery fired a 21- gun salute. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip listened as the Royal Hong Kong Police Band struck up Memory. Fitting, that: it was likely to be the Queen's final visit to Hong Kong while it is a British colony...
...number of factors have led to the doldrums. One is the return of cheap oil, which has turned some boaters back to gas-powered vessels. Another is new low-priced competition from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Finally, sailboats tend to last for many years and to return to the used-boat market time and again...
What was that about "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"? Listen to the latest cares of that veteran traveler, Queen Elizabeth II, 60. She had dreamed for years of visiting China, and now that Britain has agreed to return Hong Kong to the People's Republic in 1997, the royal progress began last week. In Peking she reviewed an honor guard of the People's Liberation Army and enthusiastically joined the tourist crowds in the Forbidden City. Her hosts were so delighted with her that chain-smoking Leader Deng Xiaoping, 82, refrained from puffing during their two-hour...
...Cornell 13-10 Penn 17-13 Columbia 83-0 Holy Cross 41-0 Colgate 38-37 5-1 14-4 .777 JOE MENN Guest Selector Former Honors Student Harvard 21-17 Penn 28-21 Princeton 28-21 Holy Cross 14-10 Colgate 21-20 DORIS DOWLING Guest Selector Bartender, Hong Kong Big Red Building Cornell 17-10 Brown 10-7 Princeton 21-14 Holy Cross 21-3 Yale...
...members of the panel agreed that it will take China decades to reach the economic status of Hong Kong orTaiwan. Aikman said China's economic improvementswill have to continue until the middle of the 21stcentury to be meaningful...