Word: ting
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...answer became more clear after I spent much of the day with Wayne Ting, born Dec. 1, 1983, and - when he's not helping organize marches on Washington - works as an associate at a private-equity firm that he isn't quite convinced he wants to name. Like many of the others who helped organize the march, Ting was shocked - deeply, if rather naively - by the passage last year in California of Proposition 8, which ended the court-appointed practice of equal marriage rights for gay couples in that state. (See a visual history of the gay-rights movement...
...What Prop 8 did for my generation," Ting told me the night before the march, at Restaurant Nora, "is that unlike past generations before, we had never been through something like where progress didn't seem inevitable. Suddenly, some right that was given was taken back. I think that had a huge effect on my generation - to say, wait a minute, you mean, if I voted for and maybe wrote a check to the Democratic Party, that's not enough...
...Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)" - The Ting Tings...
...once a long-serving executive at Texas Instruments in the U.S., was lured to Taiwan by the government as part of its effort to develop a high-tech industry. He was hired to manage a state-funded research institute, but shortly after his arrival, an influential technocrat, Li Kuo-ting, called Chang to his office and told him: "Think about how you want to start a company." The conversation led Chang, backed by state funding, to found Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), now the world's largest chip foundry and one of Taiwan's most prominent firms. That was just...
...think Chinese actors are restricted to kung fu movies in order to succeed in Hollywood? Zhou Ting, CHANGSHA, CHINA At this moment, I believe yes. In Hollywood, they have so many good actors, but if you're talking about action, there's nobody. We're not talking about fake, special-effect action stars like Superman and Batman. Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan...