Word: rangoon
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...that they want to import their favorite courses lock, stock, and travel. One farmer minister in the Burmess government upon returning home from his year as a Mason fellow persuaded his government to establish a K-School courses on microeconomics as part of the curriculum at the University of Rangoon. He wired the Kennedy School and asked for the entire course packet to be sent special delivery...
...that they want to import their favorite courses lock, stock, and barrel. One former minister in the Burmese government upon returning home from his year as a Mason fellow persuaded his government to establish a K-School course on microeconomics as part of the curriculum at the University of Rangoon. He wired the Kennedy School and asked for the entire course packet to be sent special delivery...
...different time zone: it also reveals a philosophy more developed--with age, perhaps, like a fine wine--that may be Buffett's most important contribution to our times. Instead of palm trees and seashells, his songs feature people seeking fame and fun in places ranging from New Orleans to Rangoon. Though the pursuit of either goal may seem frivolous to hardened work-ethic types, it is a relief to find someone who incorporates romance with trying to earn a living during these days of Reaganized recession...
...common borders, share common rivers and mountains and have been friendly since ancient times." Indeed, Burma is a model neighbor, resisting Soviet influence at home, while carrying on delicate good-will talks with ten neighboring states, with Peking's enthusiastic approval. As Teng toured the streets of Rangoon, which were lined with children waving flags, his first trip abroad since he assumed power seemed less like a state visit than a holiday from China's continuing foreign policy woes...
...jade; in fact, much of the trade is operated by chieftains of eastern Burma's fiercely independent Shan state, Chinese warlords left over from Kuomintang forces that fled south from China in the late 1940s and various tribesmen in southern Burma who have never acknowledged the rule of Rangoon. All these groups long depended for most of their cash income not on jade but on the rake-off from the lucrative opium trade that originates in the mountain poppy fields of the Golden Triangle of Laos, Burma and Thailand. Now, with Thailand's sharp crackdown on drug smugglers...