Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back to China, Quan stopped in California to pick up some orange- tree saplings. "You know the Chinese were the first to grow orange trees," he says. "But like a good deal else that the Chinese invented first, they had forgotten how to do it." Today almost all the villages around Quan's 300-acre farm, which may be the largest private landholding in China, are growing oranges...
...says. "They're backward as hell, but they still believe the world revolves around China. They take great pride in their civilization simply because it is old. It is almost impossible to teach them anything. You have to do what I have done. You show by example, and they pick it up as if they were the ones who had the idea all along. You can't even get them thinking about why, if China was so far ahead of the rest of the world 2,000 years ago, it is so far behind today...
Perspective business manager John A. Felitti '91 said, "even people who would normally read the publication won't if they have to pick it up at the dining hall and lug it back to their rooms...
...know the committee will pick someone with a solid administrative background and someone who knows Harvard athletics well," Krass said. "I feel confident that whoever they pick will be a strong candidate...
Leverett House Superintendent Paul W. Nugent said, "I think it's terrific. The only problem is that students never pick up their packages in time...