Word: taiwan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Pentagon sources, Iraq is among at least nine nations developing biological weapons. The others: the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Taiwan, Egypt, Israel, Iran and Syria...
Another of Unks' examples is Pepsi-Cola's advertising campaign in Taiwan. The slogan "Come Alive with Pepsi," was mistranslated into Chinese as "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead." Another ignorant American marketing move bit the dust...
...idea that sharing makes good pairing came to Stern during four years of observing marital customs in Taiwan, where her then husband was working for a U.S. bank. A native of Scotland and a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, she had met her future husband, an American, while studying in France. She returned to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1976 and, following her divorce, enrolled in law school in Chicago and later joined a law firm. In early 1982 she opened Personal Profiles. "In Taiwan the matchmaking philosophy was that love would grow and be based on respect...
According to the owners of the restaurant, Ta Chien is alive and living in Taiwan. He like hot, spicy food. That's the wole story, were not the mystery rekindled by the limited edition Ta Chien print on the wall. It is a landscape, viewed through a peculiar window a foot high and perhaps ten feet long. There are sea, land and river mouths, but the whole is rendered abstract and emotionally disturbed by the odd shape and the subtle colors. It is a plain and impenetrable as Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," despite helpful paper signs...
...four similar dishes, rose shrimp ($9.95) and scholar's chicken ($8.50) have the superior vegetable assortment. It's the Taiwan melange of broccoli, miniature canned ears of corn, water chestnuts, pea pods, straw mushrooms, and scallions. The shrimp (six this time) take the race with a hot version of the sauce...