Word: yuan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...masters involved in training new chefs take their cue from the admonition of Yuan Mei, the 18th century poet who is considered the Brillat- Savarin of China: "Into no department of life should indifference be allowed to creep -- into none less than cookery." Instructors are trying to instill Yuan's philosophy in students at vocational schools and more advanced professional cooking schools in China. Novices first learn the intricacies of chopping and slicing, practicing on potatoes or turnips, before they graduate to basic cooking techniques and finally master the classic floral garnishes formed of fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs...
...that is hardly guaranteed. When measured against a wider group of currencies, the dollar is stronger than it seems. The greenback has fallen in value by just 6.8% against the Taiwanese yuan and has risen 4.3% against the Korean...
...Georgene Herschbach, a Harvard assistant dean. This was a mistake too, but at least the station was warm: she ran across the campus to her husband's office. So it was that Dudley R. Herschbach, 54, learned he would share this year's chemistry prize with his onetime collaborator, Yuan T. Lee, 49, of the University of California, Berkeley, and with John C. Polanyi, 57, a University of Toronto chemist...
Herschbach, the fifth member of the Chemistry department to win the Nobel Prize, shares it with a former colleague, Tiawan-born Yuan T. Lee of the University of California at Berkeley, and with John C. Polanyi, a German-born professor at the University of Toronto...
...economists point out, the dollar is in some ways stronger than it appears. While it has fallen against major currencies, when it is valued against a broader measure of 25 currencies, it has hardly dropped at all. It has decreased less than 4% against the Taiwan yuan since March 1985 and actually risen nearly 4% against the South Korean...