Word: pinged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vast military complex supervised by the State Council, headed by Premier Li Peng. The company that sold the weapons, Poly Technologies, is a trading company directed by officials with links to the armed forces and the leading political families in Beijing. One of its executives, He Ping, is married to Deng Xiaoping's daughter. The two companies denied any involvement with the smuggling and also that any of those arrested had worked for them...
...sting operation as the largest seizure of fully operational automatic weapons in U.S. history. The diplomatically sensitive source of the guns: two state-owned arms manufacturers in China, Poly Technologies and Norinco. The president of Poly Technologies, a defense corporation controlled by the People's Liberation Army, is He Ping, the son-in-law of Deng Xiaoping...
...legal team reacted quickly to the snub, threatening to break off negotiations if Charles' private promises were not honored. Diana told her favorite reporter, Richard Kay of the Daily Mail, that she had given the royals everything they wanted, "and they are still not satisfied. Now they are playing Ping-Pong with me." The palace lofted another ping, announcing that the Queen wished that discussions "be conducted privately and amicably...
...Clancy, millionaire author and unlikely roue, has returned to his wife. In April Wanda Clancy filed for a legal separation from her spouse of 25 years, claiming she had been "abandoned and deserted" and that he had "committed adultery with one Katherine Huang, a.k.a. 'Bin Bin,' a.k.a. 'Ping Ping.'" But cute epithets were apparently not enough to hold the interest of Clancy, who met Huang, a Bronx assistant D.A., through a computer online service. He has moved back in with Wanda and begun to appear publicly with...
...better. Jealousy can be hard for moms and dads to deal with; imagine spending a lifetime striving to outdo one's peers only to be shown up by one's progeny. Such humiliations can be writ small--a six-year-old who keeps beating Dad in Ping-Pong--or large--a generation that, enviably, manages to look more rebellious than...