Word: yung
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...University of California at Berkeley,endowment returns have declined over the past yearfrom returns of 17.5 percent in fiscal year '97 toreturns of 12.8 percent in the last fiscal year.In the last two months things have gotten "evenworse," according to Elizabeth Yung, senioranalyst at the UC Berkeley Foundation, theorganization that manages the school'sinvestments...
...winner of the Officer of the Year Award wasTony Yung '00, incoming vice president of HRCSA.This is the first year the award has been given,and it is part of an over-reaching plan for changein HRCSA headed by Chung...
...Adams House performance is a dramatic adaptation of Taiwanese author Pai Hsien-yung's 1984 novel Niezi, translated into English in 1990 as Crystal Boys and acclaimed by the producers as "the first modern Chinese gay novel." An original creation of Weinstein and Yee, the play very clearly comes from a longer prose work. Weinstein and Yee seem to have tried to strike a balance between dramatizing character development and bringing concrete action to the stage, but the latter often works better than the former. Blocks of monologue, rather than quick banter or fast-moving action, mark the development...
...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...
Believed to be the 10th richest man in China, Yung has been well rewarded for his efforts on behalf of Beijing. Last summer Yung brokered a deal between British conglomerate Swire Pacific and the China National Aviation Corp., owned by Beijing's aviation authority. CNAC was set to launch an airline to rival Swire's Cathay Pacific; Yung prodded the British firm instead to sell the mainland intruder a controlling share in Cathay's regional DragonAir. In January, CITIC Pacific paid $2.1 billion for 20% of Hong Kong's British-controlled electricity company. Beijing denied this was the next step...