Word: yuan
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...What 'crack' does is to encrypt all the wordsin the dictionary and then match all the words tothe encrypted words. So if people use whole wordsfor passwords then it wouldn't be very had to findthe passwords and then gain access to people'saccounts," says Nina Yuan '94, who wrote herthesis on issues involving electronic security...
...demanding the right to strike. Dissidents also distributed a draft charter for a League for the Protection of the Rights of the Working People of China. Liu Nianchun, a labor activist, defiantly applied for formal registration of the unofficial league, claiming 120 founding members. At least one of them, Yuan Hongbing, was arrested. These organizing efforts are still small, but they worry the Chinese leadership because they could ignite major unrest, especially among urban workers. Inflation is running at 23% in the big cities, and the economic reforms that will privatize huge state-owned industries will add to the unemployment...
...wife, is hurt mainly in the pride, and she resolves to get satisfaction for this slur. The local public-security bureau agent, Mr. Li (Ge Zhi Jun), a reasonable politician in a hopeless situation, tells the chief to pay Qiu Ju and her husband 200 yuan in reparation. When she comes to the chief for the payment, he strews 20 10-yuan notes on the ground. "You'll bow your head to me 20 times," he snorts, "and then we'll be even." She leaves the money where it is, saying, "I'll decide when we're even...
...exchange, athletes (and often their families) enjoy better jobs and housing. They wear imported athletic clothing. If they make the 20-or-so-member national team, from age 14 on they earn an average worker's salary, with bonuses for major victories. An Olympic gold medal brings 20,000 yuan, or about $3,700, equivalent to the average per capita income for a quarter-century. Says a prominent Chinese sports journalist: "Fu Mingxia is a money tree for her family." Still, that Olympic bonus is less than a fifth of what the Soviet Union offered athletes for gold at Seoul...
Frances Z. Yuan...