Word: hotel
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...travels through the Three Gorges twice a week. The 22-year-old English and business graduate from Sichuan International Studies University works on the Qianlong cruise ship, a gaudy floating hotel with a prow shaped like a dragon's head. After 18 months making the round trip between Chongqing and Yichang, she is getting tired of the scenery, of life on the boat and of the drunken Taiwanese tourists who make passes at her in the karaoke bar at night. Now she and a friend are planning to move to Beijing, where a travel agent she met on the boat...
...kitchen inside... Here is much better." Feng's new home is 900 sq. ft., and he bought it for $5,000, which he borrowed from the bank. He has two bedrooms and all the amenities he lacked before. And now he is giving a banquet in the new hotel to celebrate the birth of his first son. Money is flowing into the town because of all the dam-construction work, and as he circulates among the tables with a bottle of rice liquor and good-luck eggs boiled in red dye, his guests are aglow with dreams for the future...
...know much about politics, but at least Zhu understands the stock market." At 19 Lin Yan is too young to remember the bad days of meat rationing, but she has a fair idea of what the stock market is. She has already moved from working as a hotel receptionist to a better-paying job selling sports equipment in Wuhan's Galaxy Plaza department store. Three nights a week she goes to private English classes, which she pays for out of her salary of $75 a month, "because if you don't know English, you can't use computers...
...hard at his reflexive nonimage. Though thin-skinned (ask any reporter who has criticized him in print), he almost never loses his temper. He never appears so much as shirtless in the locker room and changes from shorts into a fine Italian suit for each short walk from hotel room to team bus, because those few seconds may be the only time those particular fans crowding the lobby see him, and he wants to get it right. He is so polished that his few scrapes with indiscretion--losing tens of thousands of dollars in golf and poker bets to hustlers...
...JAMES RETTER, in his new book Anatomy of a Scandal, has reconstructed the events of May 8, 1991, and writes that contrary to what Jones has said in sworn statements, it's extremely unlikely that she met CLINTON around 2:30 p.m., after he gave a speech. Retter interviewed hotel personnel, conference organizers and others and found that Clinton gave his speech at 8 a.m., was gone from the hotel by 9:30 a.m. and apparently did not return. The schedule of the conference and Clinton's own schedule--including a luncheon at the Governor's mansion for European industrialists...