Word: gung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some provinces are even more gung-ho for growth than the bosses in Beijing. Hainan in the far south plans to build itself into another Hong Kong. Guangdong and Shandong hope to catch up with such Asian powerhouses as South Korea and Singapore by 2015. The special economic zone of Shenzhen is two hours' drive from the southern city of Guangzhou, where bustling construction sites and rows of town houses, factories and shopping centers line the road through the Pearl River delta. In Shanghai, China's New York City, shop windows are crammed with chic imports, electronic pagers and fancy...
...Lions (Crown; 349 pages; $25), Terry Anderson claims that North used Waite to deflect attention away from secret arms-for-hostages talks between Washington and Tehran. Waite does not say if he knew of such negotiations or later felt deceived. His memorable take on North is that the gung-ho posters in North's office "seemed adolescent...
...Lions (Crown; 349 pages; $25), Terry Anderson claims that North used Waite to deflect attention away from secret arms-for-hostages talks between Washington and Tehran. Waite does not say if he knew of such negotiations or later felt deceived. His memorable take on North is that the gung-ho posters in North's office "seemed adolescent...
...Uncle Herb"; stages weekly parties at corporate headquarters; and encourages such zany antics by his flight attendants as organizing trivia contests, delivering instructions in rap and awarding prizes for the passengers with the largest holes in their socks. The wackiness has a calculated purpose -- to generate a gung-ho spirit that will boost productivity, the key to Southwest's goal of carefully scripted growth...
...impossible to tell whether that is sound strategy or a recipe for disaster. When Aidid and Ali Mahdi made their tentative peace, neither called on his followers to surrender their weapons. A U.S. senior official said that "Aidid has parked his heavy weapons in Ethiopia." Meanwhile, the gung-ho attempt of some of the vanguard troops to seize weapons slowed perceptibly. French troops initially searched Somali cars for weapons; by week's end they were searching only for the heavy guns that used to be carried on technicals. "It would be inconceivable to disarm Mogadishu," said a senior French army...