Word: nan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooperative's chairman, Tsai Chen-chou, had funneled more than $190 million from Tenth Credit to fund his own shaky business schemes. Many citizens feel that members of the ruling Kuomintang (K.M.T.) knew of the scandal but looked the other way. Indeed, Tsai and his half brother Tsai Chen-nan, chairman of the Cathay Investment & Trust Co., had been indulging in questionable practices since 1974, but government regulators moved in only after a run by depositors threatened to close Tenth Credit. By that time, hundreds of creditors had lost an estimated $320 million...
...novel, Candide follows the loss of innocence of four young characters, who hail from the German town of Westphalia. This quarter features the tantalizing servant girl Paquette (Leslie Blumenthal), and Candide (Mark Meredith), the poor bastard cousin of both the narcissistic Maximilion (David Chase) and of the beautiful Cunegonde (Nan Hughes). All four are under the tutelage of the wise, omnipresent, and somewhat jaded Pangloss played superbly by Jon Tolin Pangloss also serves as the show's magnificent narrator--Voltaire in a similar vein to Salieri's narration in the stage production of Amadeus. From his excellent bedside miming during...
Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston, 266-5151. Richard Milani; Menchu Lamas; Anish Kapoor; Leon Glub; Anton Patiflo: Sigmar Polks: Howard Fried; Nan Goldin...
Until this race, the heavies' season had been a frustrating series of disappointments. Radcliffe tailed to quality for the fund in the Nan Dwen Crew Clush and led to both Princeton and Dartmouth...
Senior skipper Ted Kennan and freshman crew Andy Ruff paced the men with a third place finish in the B division. The women were led by senior skipper Jenkins and sophomore crew Beth Prvor, who finished third in the A division, as well skipper Rachel Givelber and Nan I conard, who claimed second in the B division...