Word: mandarin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best technique we at Dartboard witnessed was the combination of exotica. One confident undergrad revealed to an investment bank that he had devoted his academic career to swap derivatives, which he believed complemented his other talent: fluent Mandarin Chinese...
...grave remembering the tears and laughs I didn't get," she says. There were plans for the show to go to China, but they fell through. Even there Channing had intended to give it her all. "I had hired someone to teach me a curtain + speech in Mandarin Chinese," she says...
...become the first international broadcaster with a presence on the Internet. Starting Aug. 15, the U.S. government service will start offering news and regional reports in 15 languages, dramatically expanding an experimental English-language service begun in January. Among the offerings: round-the-clock, 10-minute newscasts in Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Arabic, Czech and Swahili -- digitized for net delivery, but capable of being decoded by most digital audio software.Post to New Media "The Internet...
Magisterial in style, Kempton has the mandarin's essential modesty. Sitting now over coffee, he is asked about the trials of continuing to put out a column four times a week, and he says: "The thing about writing at my age is you know when you're bad. But the thing about a column is you don't have any excuse for not writing." The columns have never been widely syndicated, and Kempton has shunned the limelight of TV punditry. Nor has he ever been granted the prestige of writing for, say, the New York Times. He does not regret...
...from a country where the international rules were unknown as recently as 1980, she showed authority and what her coach calls bing gan, a feeling for skating. Maybe the skating establishment should see whether China's homegrown code also has bing gan; it cannot be more Mandarin than the lofty formulas that are prevalent now in skating, and it might conceivably create fewer messes...