Word: wu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Green had a lot of problems because he is a pianist and not an orchestral musician, Laurence L. Wu '80, a former concertmaster of the BSO, said yesterday...
...Peking's claims that there had indeed been too much emphasis on heavy industry in the original development plans. Sinologists were surprised, too, by the re-emergence into public life of two old foes of Deng: Secret Police Chief Wang Dongxing (Wang Tung-hsing) and former Peking Mayor Wu De (Wu Teh). This did not mean, however, that the Vice Premier was in serious political trouble. Rather, the probability was that Deng had to slow the hectic pace of modernization in order to secure the continued cooperation of his colleagues...
...Wu said. "It might be very, very expensive to switch. And it would add some extra burden on Chinese students who would have to learn the Pinyin system. Unlike the newspapers, which just have to occasionally change a name, we would have to live with the system...
...Wu said he was waiting to see if the Library of Congress and other East Asian libraries switch to Pinyin before deciding whether the Yenching Library should convert. "We also intend to talk to faculty and students. If the faculty very much wants Pinyin, I suppose we'll definitely have to switch," Wu said...
...Wu said publications from Taiwan would retain the Wade-Giles system "since Taiwan doesn't want to follow any system of the Chinese...