Word: yang
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...What's more, North Korea's designated messenger for the announcement of its nuclear violation was Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju, the very official who clinched the 1994 agreement. With this clumsy stroke, Pyong-yang undercut the credibility of its entire negotiating team. Now, even if Washington wants to get a deal, there is no one on the other side they can trust...
...interview with Shaquille O’Neal, center for the L.A. Lakers, to its nationwide audience. Asked his opinion on Yao Ming, the rookie center for the Houston Rockets, O’Neal derisively taunted in mock-Chinese, “Tell Yao Ming, ‘ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.’” Far from condemning this inappropriate remark, Bruno found O’Neal’s comment amusing, inviting listeners to call in with jokes on this topic...
...conflict with the traditional family structure." Huang Chang-ling, vice president of the feminist Awakening Foundation, argues that the class should put more emphasis on gender equality, "otherwise it'll be meaningless." Couples needing a model of marital longevity, however, need look no further than their compatriots Liu Yung-yang and Yang Wan, whose 85-year union makes them the world's longest-married couple. Their granddaughter-in-law says, "(They) hardly had a quarrel with each other, keeping a very intimate relationship." Whatever their secret, too few of their countrymen...
...advocates say the CSRC's proposed reforms should actually be shelved because the policies will hurt the widows and orphans who spent their last fen on stocks. "The government sold shares to the people for far too much money, and it can't let the market die now," argues Yang Fan, an economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who has written extensively on the defense of small investors...
...politics, marriages matter big time, as the Veep might put it. Since high school, Lynne has been the yin for her husband's yang. The quiet captain of the football team went into a full swoon over the drum majorette, who on their first date nearly 40 years ago wore a red strapless gown with a crinoline skirt, which Lynne jokes accounted for their second date. But he never actually asked her to marry him. "He was incremental about it," she says of a man who is incremental about little else...