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Word: ong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to long-time friend Lay Lee Ong, Rey communicated verbal wishes to Ong that conflicted with the provisions of her will, reducing the amount that the 16 named beneficiaries, including PBHA, would receive...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: PBHA Awaits $1.3M Bequest | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...past five years only a handful of sweatshop owners has been prosecuted for failing to pay workers. The government failure has created an even more lawless enclave. Local cops say that as the immigrants become more desperate for money, they often turn to crime. According to Tommy Ong of the New York police intelligence division, the sleazy employment agencies under the Manhattan Bridge that specialize in placing illegal immigrants in jobs around the country often misrepresent and oversell the type of work available. When workers return and can't pay off their immigration debt, the gangsters (or "snakeheads") offer them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaves Of New York | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Singapore's President Ong Teng Cheong, suffering from a lymphoma between his brain and skull for which he'd been treated back home, went to Stanford medical center last December for post-treatment evaluation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 23, 1996 | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...developed, then, a kind of schizoid world in which I sought to explain how and why research was in two different areas. Concepts, like time, won over: the indistinction of things legible and visible in both film and early modern writing. The book as a creation of what Walter Ong called the "local motion" of printed characters. Cinema as an operation that analyzes culture differentially because it establishes multiple "tracks" and thus complicates deixis in ways familiar to medieval authors. Cartographic writing and the relation of space on early maps to literary and political artifacts...

Author: By Thomas C. Conley, | Title: From the 'U' to the 'H' | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

...Director Ong Ker Shing has certainly done a fine job of bringing out the most endearing qualities of the characters in the play. Marco Simons capably coordinates the lights so that the attention of the audience is always fixed on the characters...

Author: By Roland Tan, | Title: Triple 'A' Brews Strong Tea | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

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