Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poker game has lasted almost two years now. The players are the world's most populous nation, China, and that most weathered of empire builders, Britain. In the kitty is a gleaming pearl, the scintillant colony of Hong Kong, which London is due to return to Peking in 1997. The favored strategy so far has been caution. Through 19 rounds of official bidding and bluffing, the British have remained outwardly imperturbable, while the Chinese have countered with a variety of shrewd hands...
...Ziyang in the Purple Light Pavilion, where Emperors once gave audiences to "barbarians" bringing tribute. Finally, the Foreign Secretary went on to the Great Hall of the People and spent an additional 40 minutes with Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, who has elevated the recovery of Hong Kong to a national mission. By the time their discussion ended, Deng, looking tanned and healthy less than a month before his 80th birthday, seemed positively merry. "If we say that it was General de Gaulle who brought an end to French colonialism," he proclaimed, "then we can also...
...Hong Kong the following day, Howe made public the cause of all the blithe spirits: the two countries had worked out the basic principles of a treaty that they hope to draft and initial as early as next month. The Sino-British plan for the future of the flourishing colony and its 5.5 million people, declared Howe, had all the makings of "a historic agreement." It would convert Hong Kong into an "autonomous special administrative zone" that could continue to be a bastion of freewheeling capitalism for at least 50 years after the 1997 handover. The terms of the agreement...
...typewriter business he founded 26 years ago into giant Commodore International (1983 sales: $1 billion). He left the company abruptly and unexpectedly in January, apparently because he had trouble sharing power with other Commodore executives. In the following months, he took the time to tour Sri Lanka and Hong Kong and think about his future...
Nowhere is the art of getting trashed better practiced than at the Hong Restaurant (1236 Mass. Ave.), its glaring pink exterior unmistakable. Go upstairs past the off-duty cop and the slightly tipsy, muscle-bound bouncer and find mass inhalation of the famed Scorpion Bowl. The Kong also features scores of foreign beers, and the hardy can try to join the 69 Club, by consuming 69 different types of beer in a set period of time. Prices are steep, and after several $7-plus Scorpion Bowls, your wallet may cease to exist...