Word: pang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME board forecast that growth rates in all five countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations will increase next year by about ½ to 1½ percentage points. High-flying Singapore, with its fast-growing electronics and financial-services industries, will lead the way. Said Board Member Pang Eng Fong of the National University of Singapore: "We feel like a water skier being pulled by a speedboat. We dare...
Standing waist-deep in a recession, after 20 years of change that hurled the cultural furniture around and turned much of it to junk, they are apt to think longingly of excellence. They may watch a film like Chariots of Fire, for example, with a nostalgic pang for the simplicity of its moral lines, its portrait of excellence unambiguously pursued...
...Chinese are also working to solve some of the infrastructure problems. Peng Pang, deputy director of Shenzhen's External Economy and Technology Office, points proudly to the city's construction bustle as proof that there will soon be adequate telephone and road service. Says a British engineer in Hong Kong: "Shenzhen may look chaotic now, but all this digging means that by next year all the basic utilities will be installed...
...Salyut, although it could be used for unmanned missions. The Soviets have indicated that they may dock an unmanned Cosmos satellite on Salyut soon, perhaps this week. After looking back at the ship for the last time, Kovalyonok rhapsodized: "It was so beautiful it gave my heart a pang...
...mystery takes on a different hue for homosexuals, but remains a mystery nonetheless. Many can take their preference without a pang of remorse and guilt; they only have to fear the repression and condescension from a society that targets them for debasement. But many cannot evade the question of why they are what they are. Emotional trauma over the stark facts has always led a few to suicide; others have been instilled with a morbid sense of shame and self-hatred. Moral revisionists will no doubt blame such personal tragedies on the evil influence of society and public opinion...