Word: hong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hong Kong, Fineberg met with members of the advisory committee on Harvard's newly formed Asia Center, including Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's most important governing body...
Fineberg, in fact, just returned from a 10-day jaunt that took him to Taipei, Hong Kong and Kyoto...
...Vegas is to ATM machines, has been playing catch-up ball for years. It's just the sort of place that would boast about having the busiest airport, which seems a bit like boasting about having the world's largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood for the first time and feels the need to display in its driveway the most expensive luxury sedan...
...transfer of the canal to Panama by the end of this year. But that has some U.S. hawks worried. Both Buchanan and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott have cited a Chinese threat in the isthmus, based on the fact that the company contracted to operate the canal is Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., which they assert has links to the Chinese military. But Lott's warning in August that "U.S. naval ships will be at the mercy of Chinese-controlled pilots and could even be denied passage by Hutchison" and Buchanan's charge last week that the transfer compromises...
...Hong Kong...