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Word: menges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never called long-distance much," said Victoria Meng '00. "My phone bill at one point last year was like $3 a month...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UIS Announces Long Distance Rate Decrease | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...other countries. Cambodia is one of the forgotten countries with a long, hard past and a long, hard future. I am an American, an American who still remembers that we all, in this great land, came from some other country recently or a long, long time ago. PEA LAY MENG HE University Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 1999 | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

SINGAPORE IS ASIA'S DREAM COUNTRY. Almost anywhere else, Goh Pang Meng, the son of a poor immigrant street vendor from China, would still be struggling to survive in a thatched hut like the one in which he grew up with 11 brothers and sisters. But at 44, Goh owns a comfortable five-room apartment and lives, like 87% of his countrymen, in a government housing project. He has three children, the minimum politically correct number preferred for the well- educated by a eugenics-inspired government: he received a $12,500 tax credit for the third birth, and his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Singapore a Model for the West? | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...landscape. This genre is presented in long, vertical canvases and the painting style varies between free-stroking airiness and meticulous craftsmanship, depending on the artist. Often, the works within one heritage are juxtaposed. This is particularly effective in a series of landscapes by the Lan family; Lan Meng, Lan Tao and Lan Ying. These landscapes are characterized by a detail and tranquility which span all three generations...

Author: By John M. Biers, | Title: Exhibit Simplifies Artistic Heritage | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

Jang Jisheng's work is an exception to this omission. His Travelling at Mount Tianhua, a landscape that resembles a Lan Meng or a Lan Yin, is embedded with a reflective political statement, expressed in the inscription. Jisheng, exiled for political dissidence, has inscribed his lonely, cloudy seascape with a sad, romantic poem, translated as follows...

Author: By John M. Biers, | Title: Exhibit Simplifies Artistic Heritage | 10/4/1991 | See Source »

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