Word: wining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having dined on wine, salad and chocolate cake last Thursday, I was in the proper mood to enjoy "Me and My Galaxy," which was characterized by catchy music, showy sets, stunning costumes, a rollicking band, zippy choreography, the usual dastardly puns and men in short skirts. The plot (plot?) limped once in a while, and the singers sometimes could not make themselves heard over the band, but the energy of the actors and the pulse of the music lifted the play from these occasional doldrums...
...majority of the council voted to bring God Street Wine this year...
...things will be all right without Deng," said Beijing writer Yin Zhixian. "It's unlikely that there will be major changes, because everyone is a beneficiary of Deng's policies." Thirtyish Zhu Xun, manager of the Shanghai office of a German air-conditioning firm, raised his glass of white wine at the chic Golden Age club in a fitting toast: "Thank you, Comrade Deng...
...selling them in private markets. In no time, residents of tiny villages like Fenghuang in central Sichuan province had wrought a green revolution. By 1984 the village was producing more than $1 million worth of rice and a range of side products, including a famous brand of rice wine. The once impoverished residents were now earning close to $200 a year, enough to begin replacing their mud-and-straw huts with solid brick houses...
Yung has earned a reputation as one of the few Chinese businessmen to master the art of Western finance. He also knows how to cultivate an opulent life-style. One of the 12 stewards of the oh-so-exclusive Hong Kong Jockey Club, Yung loves French wine and Thoroughbred horses; he owns Mr. Vitality, the top prizewinner in Hong Kong last year...