Word: hong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notable exclusion from the foundation's announcement was Kin-ming Liu, a prominent Hong Kong journalist...
...waiting to hear from Harvard, he could hardly turn down such an offer on the chance that he would receive a Nieman--and in any event the job would have gone to someone else. I pointed out that Liu's new paper was the only one in Hong Kong, although it has mass appeal, free of political censorship or pressure. I said to Kovach that the decision to withdraw the fellowship seemed unjust...
...criticism hurled at the IMF, which follows the Treasury Secretary's lead, as Asian officials complained that the IMF's austerity measures were aggravating the crisis. "The handling of the crisis was a disaster in the beginning," says Andy Xie, chief China economist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Hong Kong...
...girlfriend on the dance floor of the Hong Kong. I know it's cheesy, but we met at Senior Bar, 99 days before graduation. I admired her smile from across the dance floor; she tells me that she admired my bravery in asking her to dance. We hit it off and we've been enjoying each other's company ever since...
...pretend to have a foolproof solution for getting over this nervousness, since I suffer from it too. But maybe I have more answers than I realize. For instance, when I think about the night that I first met my girlfriend on the dance floor at the Hong Kong, I know that it was only by getting past my own fear and anxiety that I worked up the courage to ask her to dance. Many times before I had chickened out of striking up conversations with attractive women at parties; that night I resolved to put myself on the line...