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  • My uncle had died in Hong Kong a few years before.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong Sweden Denmark Jamaica Singapore It is important to note that Hofstede wasn't suggesting that there was a right place or a wrong place to be on any one of these scales.†   (source)
  • As for Kyoto, it sounded as foreign to me as Hong Kong, or even New York, which I'd once heard Dr. Miura talk about.†   (source)
  • And so, facing the tawny brick wall of a neighboring building across the air shaft, he works with a team on designs for hotels and museums and corporate headquarters in cities he's never seen: Brussels, Buenos Aires, Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • And I'm talking with some big pen and pencil companies in Hong Kong and Japan about a deal that could be worth some really big money.†   (source)
  • It says: MR. LEE'S GREATER HONG KONG Explosive noise from in back.†   (source)
  • People in New York, London, Cairo, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Moscow, and other large cities don't expect each other to be the same, and yet these cities function with an extraordinary degree of civility, because it's in the interests—economic, social, and psychological—of the various groups to get along.†   (source)
  • Frank Fischbeck, fifty-three, a dapper, genteel publisher from Hong Kong, had attempted Everest three times with one of Hall's competitors; in 1994 he'd gotten all the way to the South Summit, just 330 vertical feet below the top.†   (source)
  • I mean, I been to Benning and Polk and Seoul and Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • I was barefoot and robeless and felt a chill pass through the Hong Kong polyester of my pajamas.†   (source)
  • I had matches in Hong Kong and Taiwan and stuff, and a kind of local fan club-a small one.†   (source)
  • In Hong Kong, we knew an Australian prostitute who slipped Sheryl into the locker room of her "men's club" to meet the local girls, who were there because they saw a chance to enrich themselves.†   (source)
  • Around the corner, in his room at the hotel where he was staying, were hundreds more like it-worn maps of every state in the Union, every Canadian province, every South American country-for the young man was an incessant conceiver of voyages, not a few of which he had actually taken: to Alaska, to Hawaii and Japan, to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Then; seem to be a million of them— Korean Students Association, one for the Japanese, one for students from Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Mimmi's mother was from Hong Kong, her father from Boden.†   (source)
  • Last night, Annie could see, it had been a skunk and some lurid dragon-creature Robert had once brought back from-Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • We could make it look like a private donation from a businessman in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • All the newscasts spoke of John Bradley's passing, and we received clippings from as far away as Johannesburg, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.†   (source)
  • I believe we even met once, at the Hong Kong drug symposium two years ago.†   (source)
  • For the next eight years, she sent postcards to her family from around the world; Ayers Rock in Australia, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, the fjords in Norway, Hong Kong Harbor, the Wawel in Poland.†   (source)
  • There is a colorful series of pictures from Hong Kong, Thailand, and other exotic places, which would usually have me thinking wistfully about going on holiday.†   (source)
  • The silk came from a bolt an FS-Three in our section brought back from Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong P.S. I am 15 years old but look younger.†   (source)
  • Other aunts, mothers-in-law, and cousins disappeared; some suddenly began writing to us again from communes or from Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • We can catch a ride to Hong Kong on a military transport heading out.†   (source)
  • Mannie, this little girl is Wyoming Knott and she came all the way from Plato to tell us how we're doing in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • He retrieved an album from below his sofa bed and showed us pictures of a collective farm where his father grew up, a full page of his grandmother, a shrunken woman with three teeth and skin the color of chestnuts, his mother and father and sister in the middle of Hong Kong harbor on a tour junk, overdressed, looking sea-green.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco.†   (source)
  • Koreans, Filipinos, people from Hong Kong and Taiwan, South Africans, Italians, Greeks, South Americans, Argentines, Colombians, Venezuelans, Bolivians, a lot of black people who've cleaned out places you've never heard of, Chinese from everywhere.†   (source)
  • I never even kissed another woman, not really, not even when I had duty in Tokyo or Manila or Hong Kong, and she was half a world away.†   (source)
  • One of Peter's students was from Hong Kong, so I had him go to the map, pick out his country, then let Peter tell about the country.†   (source)
  • Andy traveled frequently and was currently in Hong Kong, working on a construction project.†   (source)
  • Welcome to Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, Mr. Protagonist," the security system says through a PA.†   (source)
  • The answer shouldn't surprise you: Singapore, South Korea, China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, and Japan.†   (source)
  • And the clothes she had made in Hong Kong!†   (source)
  • Immigrated from Hong Kong two years ago.†   (source)
  • She left mysteriously for Hong Kong soon after my husband disappeared.†   (source)
  • Guns are illegal in Hong Kong, remember?†   (source)
  • The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different.†   (source)
  • She stands there in the middle of the Hong Kong lawngrid.†   (source)
  • It stopped everywhere: Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hawaii.†   (source)
  • We add just a little, so you can go Hong Kong, take a train to Shanghai, see your sisters.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong is another story.†   (source)
  • Dense enough that Hong Kong has several full-time employees here, including a proconsul.†   (source)
  • It is the photo that is on the wall of every Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong in the world.†   (source)
  • Like the Hong Kong franchulate, it's empty, quiet, and doesn't stink.†   (source)
  • It has a green flag and appears to be connected with Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • In typical Hong Kong style, it is more of a spray of small buildings and rooms all over town.†   (source)
  • That is an important function, because guns are illegal in Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong is a predominantly Cantonese—†   (source)
  • Suddenly, they are impaled on Hong Kong robot spotlights one more time.†   (source)
  • "These are Hong Kong Vietnamese," Raven says.†   (source)
  • The Hong Kong robot security system is checking him out.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong," Hiro says.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong franchulates are famous for their lawngrids-who.†   (source)
  • If you have not attained your Hong Kong citizenship, apply for a passport now!†   (source)
  • They step carefully over the spikes and onto the lush Hong Kong lawngrid.†   (source)
  • This isn't exactly the best service I've everhad at a Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong is a private, wholly extraterritorial, sovereign, quasi.†   (source)
  • It is my pleasure to welcome all quality folks to visiting of Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • We of Greater Hong Kong take many prides in our tiny nation's extravagant growth.†   (source)
  • Several of them overshot the Hong Kong franchise and had to back up a block or so.†   (source)
  • She looks back at the Hong Kong franchise.†   (source)
  • The Raft of a hundred Hong Kong B-movies and blood-.†   (source)
  • How we could perhaps meet again, in an interesting place like Hong Kong, or Kyoto.†   (source)
  • She would say one of the labs in Hong Kong or Switzerland or at UCLA had made a breakthrough.†   (source)
  • To Singapore or Hong Kong or even the Seychelles, perhaps.†   (source)
  • And now you're in Hong Kong and you tell me you're in trouble.†   (source)
  • I seen it all but never ....You ever seen Road to Hong Kong?†   (source)
  • When she had lived in China and in Hong Kong, she had written every other week.†   (source)
  • The British and other foreigners lived on the Hong Kong Island side.†   (source)
  • We went to Hong Kong together, why not Paris?†   (source)
  • "How was the trip to Hong Kong, sir?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Kids are paying seventy dollars Hong Kong for judgment.†   (source)
  • If I have to hide, I can do better in Hong Kong, where I know people.†   (source)
  • You were killed in Hong Kong ...four, five years ago!†   (source)
  • "Hello," he said like an Englishman in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Out of love, she had stayed behind in Hong Kong, so GaoLing could have a chance at freedom first.†   (source)
  • Almost including the plane to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Reports came from informers in Manila, Osaka, Hong Kong and Tokyo.†   (source)
  • My mother sends money she earns working in the tomato fields to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Might have phoned Hong Kong ....had sleep-logged feeling was some reason she shouldn't phone.†   (source)
  • D'Anjou had called him from Hong Kong at noon.†   (source)
  • Miss Patsy was the daughter, seventy years old, born in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • You see, he was in Hong Kong, too-for reasons not much different from mine.†   (source)
  • 'Since I spent a number of years here in Hong Kong, I can't imagine that Peking overlooked me.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong should have been our stronghold.†   (source)
  • And she had a high-class city accent from living in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Mom didn't say anything about her life after she left Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Nor was I in Hong Kong, and I'm certainly not now.†   (source)
  • Lovely Orchid, the youngest aunt, owned either a shoe store or a shoe factory in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • The offices were in the Asian House, 14th Floor, Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • ...I came back from Hong Kong five years ago with the banner of Accountability on my lance.†   (source)
  • If GaoLing got me the visa, fine, I would make my way back to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Comrade Clayton from Hong Kong showed up, pressed my shoulder, smiled at Wyoh, found a seat.†   (source)
  • I'm told Mr. McAllister was with you in Hong Kong, Mr. Conklin, is that correct?†   (source)
  • I've never seen much of line families, not many in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Why did the conversation with the Hong Kong operator bother him so?†   (source)
  • But she would need a helper to accompany her to Hong Kong and then across the ocean.†   (source)
  • Three days later, just before we left for Hong Kong, we had a little party.†   (source)
  • In seventy-two hours the consulate in Hong Kong will make sure of it.†   (source)
  • I went to Hong Kong with her, held her hand while her tubes were restored.†   (source)
  • He sent us both to Hong Kong and he never forgave himself.†   (source)
  • He's to sign us in once he gets to Hong Kong.'†   (source)
  • GaoLing was supposed to argue that she should be the one to wait in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • I am contract custodian of the archive files of the Birth Assistance Clinic in Hong Kong Luna.†   (source)
  • I don't want to have happen here what happened in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • The laws of confidentiality are most strict in Hong Kong — a lecture!†   (source)
  • There are plenty of thieves in Hong Kong these days.†   (source)
  • Mike read out Hong Kong Luna list and was hardly started when Wyoh gasped, "Stop, Mike!†   (source)
  • Beijing would march into Hong Kong and take over.†   (source)
  • If we don't make it in Hong Kong, I don't use it.†   (source)
  • The People's Republic will never substantively touch Hong Kong!†   (source)
  • It wasn't when you saw me off on that plane to Hong Kong five years ago.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong Luna had pulled out, declared self separately independent....might be open to reason.†   (source)
  • The communications centre of MI6, Special Branch, Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Carlos dug around Hong Kong, that's where his penetration was made, where he found you and Mo.†   (source)
  • The impostor's clients are obviously here in Hong Kong, not Macao.'†   (source)
  • I don't know who he is; he may live in Hong Kong or be shopkeeper nearest my home.†   (source)
  • Was it a resurrection of Hong Kong and Macao?†   (source)
  • Carlos hasn't anything to do with taipans or Hong Kong or messages from Macao.†   (source)
  • You could go around through Torricelli and Novylen and eventually reach Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • And if Hong Kong is nothing else, it's money.†   (source)
  • If we lose a Governor tonight we may be on our way to losing Hong Kong in a matter of days.†   (source)
  • Flights of fancy out of Beijing, Hong Kong-some concerning a man named Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • You said Wyoh should not go to Hong Kong and I should not go home.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong could blow apart, but not for the reasons you gave me.†   (source)
  • I was clerking in a Hindu shop, eating money, no more, when I saw this ad in the Hong Kong Gong.†   (source)
  • It's the Jackal-by way of Hong Kong and Macao, but it's still the Jackal.†   (source)
  • There must be twenty million typewriters in Hong Kong.'†   (source)
  • Should have been, at thirty-two Hong Kong dollars.†   (source)
  • A third name was added to the clearance procedures for that official record on Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • She is on her way to another apartment, one of millions in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • We said they could stay on or resign; then those we needed, we rehired with Hong Kong dollars.†   (source)
  • They left a trail that forced him to go after her-to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • But business was cover for politics; liaison with Hong Kong had been thin.†   (source)
  • He found us in Hong Kong and he's zeroing in on me and my family, on my wife and my children.†   (source)
  • It sends its water south to Kowloon and Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • I suppose Hong Kong dollars weren't "money" in some legal sense.†   (source)
  • A British MI6 operating out of Hong Kong, a man the CIA has relied on for years.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong should have been Party's stronghold.†   (source)
  • How many taipans are there in Hong Kong?†   (source)
  • Mike, these news stories and our message to F.N. all assume that we have won in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong in six minutes if we don't "bump into anybody".†   (source)
  • To Singapore or Hong Kong, perhaps the Seychelles, I think I said.†   (source)
  • There's a crisis here in Hong Kong and you've crippled me!'†   (source)
  • 'I don't have any choice, do IT Over the loudspeakers came the last call for Flight 26 to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • How much more effective for a maniac who wanted to throw Hong Kong into chaos!†   (source)
  • The prefix is "five", therefore it is on the island of Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Who wants to build a garage in Hong Kong when he could house a dozen shops — businesses?†   (source)
  • David sat in the chair by the tinted window looking across the harbour at the island of Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Also, none of the others spent seven years in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • How long before the parent refuses to tolerate a disobedient child and marches into Hong Kong?†   (source)
  • This was Hong Kong, the colony of survival and it had the tools of survival.†   (source)
  • I'm on the seven P. M. flight to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • I'm in Hong Kong and I'm in serious trouble.†   (source)
  • Because I want a piece of that Hong Kong pie of his.†   (source)
  • One call from the Lisboa to the taipan in Hong Kong and Marie was dead.†   (source)
  • 'You park,' replied Staples, withdrawing several Hong Kong dollars from her purse.†   (source)
  • Our college has an arrangement with the Chinese University of Hong Kong.'†   (source)
  • If I had a name, I could forward it through a blind to the British authorities in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Lin Wenzu's unit was penetrated when it and all of Hong Kong were searching for her.†   (source)
  • I'm not dealing with the British in Hong Kong.'†   (source)
  • He runs stolen gold and jewels, operating between Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore.†   (source)
  • There was slightly more than $600 Hong Kong, which was slightly less than $100 American.†   (source)
  • The laws of confidentiality are most strict in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • 'I'll be on the earliest plane to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • I've considered that since the day I arrived back in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • And spell out the name of that banker in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • The old man is now one of the most powerful taipans in Hong Kong — but which one, we don't know.†   (source)
  • Where do we find such a conspirator in Hong Kong?†   (source)
  • 'Not for a week,' said Bourne, placing Hong Kong money in front of him.†   (source)
  • That your husband was thousands of miles away from Hong Kong.'†   (source)
  • 'We've divided Hong Kong and Kowloon up into sections.†   (source)
  • Three days ago when she was hiding me in her apartment in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • There is no Canadian embassy in Hong Kong, but there is a consulate.†   (source)
  • The operators in Hong Kong — with justification — were among the most peremptory in the world.†   (source)
  • We're still talking, and you tipped your hand when you flew into Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • The duck, however, is the best in Hong Kong...Can you wait, Marie?†   (source)
  • 'I don't know what's back in Hong Kong any more than you do.†   (source)
  • There was only one man like him in all of Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • They're uniforms of the Hong Kong police.†   (source)
  • He would buy a weapon in Hong Kong; it was not a difficult purchase.†   (source)
  • 'He and his people intend to take over Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • That a man in Hong Kong wanted me killed?†   (source)
  • The wife of a Hong Kong banker named Yao Ming, a taipan whose bank is only a fraction of his wealth.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I wonder if I'm in Hong Kong or the Vatican.†   (source)
  • My wife was kidnapped and brought to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • It's in the file I mentioned, a file locked in my office in Hong Kong.†   (source)
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