Word: vu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South Viet Nam is now administered by battle-tough Viet Cong veterans. A 54-year-old lieutenant colonel, for example, was chosen to head Saigon's City Department of Social Service and administer $2.26 million a year. In Song Be province, Vu Xuan Thu, once a Viet Cong guerrilla leader, is deputy director of land clearing and New Economic Zones, a job that involves the destinies of 150,000 farmers. Thu claims to have killed 27 Americans during the war, but he admits that such heroics do not help him now. "In the army...
Having grown up in the '50s, I had a feeling of déjà vu on reading "Here Comes the Preppie Look" [April 28]. Egads, think of the money we could save in these inflationary times if all that stuff hadn't been sold in garage sales years...
...below ground, where construction workers are building a subway, and two shows deal with the hilarious goings-on around the garbage truck. Garbage Is My Life may turn up on ABC, and Garbage may air on NBC. Many viewers may have an unhappy sense of déjà vu. The Silverman network also has a fondness for dogs. Here's Boomer, the saga of the world's smartest mutt, is already on the schedule, and next year it may be frolicking with the world's three smartest Dobermans, the detective stars of-yes-The Dobermans. Arfs...
...Deja Vu...
...most of the country, the search for a rental apartment ends more often in this kind of frustration than in the acquisition of a lg 2 bdrm w/wbf, A/C & riv vu. Vacancy rates in cities such as New York, Chicago and even Kansas City are far below the 5% to 8% that Realtors consider is needed for renters to have a reasonable choice at a fair price. So tight is the market in Manhattan that as an old woman lay dying in her $400-a-month, two-bedroom Gramercy Park apartment, 374 people signed up for the prospective vacancy...