Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard lightweight crews are on their way to Hong Kong, but there may not be any Scorpion Bowls when the squads get there...
...Edward R. Murrow." The British-born Koppel came to the U.S. in 1953, spent his undergraduate years at Syracuse University and received a Masters in journalism from Stanford. In 1963, he joined ABC and reported from Vietnam--he learned Vietnamese before he left--and then headed the network's Hong Kong bureau. In 1977, he became the anchor of the ABC "Saturday Night Evening News...
Earlier in the month, Bok had to weave his way back through an all-night party, "The Encampment for Divestiture," that bivouacked in front of Massachusetts Hall last month--complete with cases of Budweiser and Hong Kong take-out. Confronted by a mob that demanded he speak up, Bok suggested that the saner locale of his office might be a better environment to discuss Harvard's $440 million of investments in companies that have some amount of operations in South Africa. Divestitures nailed him for trying to avoid the issue altogether...
Except for a surge in the sale of postage stamps to collectors, the islands' economy is stagnant. Shopkeepers complain that, though they sell the troops quite a few Hong Kong-made mugs, flags and ashtrays, they made far more money from the British goods they once peddled to Argentine tourists. The Standard Chartered Bank has opened an office on Ross Road, but the capital still has no barber shop, laundry or auto-repair garage...
...comfortable colonial society, charming and eccentric at home, but living by hard deals everywhere else. The crisis in Democracy comes when Inez's father Paul, a voluble lunatic, shoots Janet to death, and Inez, mystified but somehow released, leaves her old life to go with Lovett to Hong Kong just before the fall of Saigon...