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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Say, Andy, remember when Rob was tryin' to go with that exchange student from Hong Kong because she was so good in math?†   (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)
  • My parents always wanted to go to Tibet but never got closer than Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • It says: MR. LEE'S GREATER HONG KONG Explosive noise from in back.†   (source)
  • I was barefoot and robeless and felt a chill pass through the Hong Kong polyester of my pajamas.†   (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)
  • I had matches in Hong Kong and Taiwan and stuff, and a kind of local fan club-a small one.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We can catch a ride to Hong Kong on a military transport heading out.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Then; seem to be a million of them— Korean Students Association, one for the Japanese, one for students from Hong Kong.†   (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)
  • Hong Kong P.S. I am 15 years old but look younger.†   (source)
  • I believe we even met once, at the Hong Kong drug symposium two years ago.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco.†   (source)
  • I mean, I been to Benning and Polk and Seoul and Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Other aunts, mothers-in-law, and cousins disappeared; some suddenly began writing to us again from communes or from Hong Kong.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Andy traveled frequently and was currently in Hong Kong, working on a construction project.†   (source)
  • Guns are illegal in Hong Kong, remember?†   (source)
  • And the clothes she had made in Hong Kong!†   (source)
  • The answer shouldn't surprise you: Singapore, South Korea, China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, and Japan.†   (source)
  • Immigrated from Hong Kong two years ago.†   (source)
  • The British and other foreigners lived on the Hong Kong Island side.†   (source)
  • She left mysteriously for Hong Kong soon after my husband disappeared.†   (source)
  • She stands there in the middle of the Hong Kong lawngrid.†   (source)
  • Out of love, she had stayed behind in Hong Kong, so GaoLing could have a chance at freedom first.†   (source)
  • The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different.†   (source)
  • But Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong is another story.†   (source)
  • It stopped everywhere: Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hawaii.†   (source)
  • Miss Patsy was the daughter, seventy years old, born in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Dense enough that Hong Kong has several full-time employees here, including a proconsul.†   (source)
  • We add just a little, so you can go Hong Kong, take a train to Shanghai, see your sisters.†   (source)
  • Mom didn't say anything about her life after she left Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • It is the photo that is on the wall of every Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong in the world.†   (source)
  • If GaoLing got me the visa, fine, I would make my way back to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • But she would need a helper to accompany her to Hong Kong and then across the ocean.†   (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)
  • Three days later, just before we left for Hong Kong, we had a little party.†   (source)
  • In typical Hong Kong style, it is more of a spray of small buildings and rooms all over town.†   (source)
  • GaoLing was supposed to argue that she should be the one to wait in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • There are plenty of thieves in Hong Kong these days.†   (source)
  • That is an important function, because guns are illegal in Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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-. soaked Nipponese comic books.†   (source)
  • The silk came from a bolt an FS-Three in our section brought back from Hong Kong.†   (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)
  • Kids are paying seventy dollars Hong Kong for judgment.†   (source)
  • "How was the trip to Hong Kong, sir?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Carlos dug around Hong Kong, that's where his penetration was made, where he found you and Mo.†   (source)
  • And now you're in Hong Kong and you tell me you're in trouble.†   (source)
  • Reports came from informers in Manila, Osaka, Hong Kong and Tokyo.†   (source)
  • He sent us both to Hong Kong and he never forgave himself.†   (source)
  • If I have to hide, I can do better in Hong Kong, where I know people.†   (source)
  • Almost including the plane to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • To Singapore or Hong Kong or even the Seychelles, perhaps.†   (source)
  • D'Anjou had called him from Hong Kong at noon.†   (source)
  • Might have phoned Hong Kong …. had sleep-logged feeling was some reason she shouldn't phone.†   (source)
  • It wasn't when you saw me off on that plane to Hong Kong five years ago.†   (source)
  • 'Since I spent a number of years here in Hong Kong, I can't imagine that Peking overlooked me.†   (source)
  • We went to Hong Kong together, why not Paris?†   (source)
  • Hong Kong should have been our stronghold.†   (source)
  • Comrade Clayton from Hong Kong showed up, pressed my shoulder, smiled at Wyoh, found a seat.†   (source)
  • The offices were in the Asian House, 14th Floor, Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Flights of fancy out of Beijing, Hong Kong-some concerning a man named Jason Bourne.†   (source)
  • Was it a resurrection of Hong Kong and Macao?†   (source)
  • Why did the conversation with the Hong Kong operator bother him so?†   (source)
  • I've never seen much of line families, not many in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • … I came back from Hong Kong five years ago with the banner of Accountability on my lance.†   (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's to sign us in once he gets to Hong Kong.'†   (source)
  • I am contract custodian of the archive files of the Birth Assistance Clinic in Hong Kong Luna.†   (source)
  • You were killed in Hong Kong … four, five years ago!†   (source)
  • Mike read out Hong Kong Luna list and was hardly started when Wyoh gasped, "Stop, Mike!†   (source)
  • The laws of confidentiality are most strict in Hong Kong — a lecture!†   (source)
  • I'm told Mr. McAllister was with you in Hong Kong, Mr. Conklin, is that correct?†   (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)
  • Carlos hasn't anything to do with taipans or Hong Kong or messages from Macao.†   (source)
  • The communications centre of MI6, Special Branch, Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • They left a trail that forced him to go after her-to Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong Luna had pulled out, declared self separately independent…. might be open to reason.†   (source)
  • I don't know who he is; he may live in Hong Kong or be shopkeeper nearest my home.†   (source)
  • The impostor's clients are obviously here in Hong Kong, not Macao.'†   (source)
  • I don't want to have happen here what happened in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • You see, he was in Hong Kong, too-for reasons not much different from mine.†   (source)
  • And if Hong Kong is nothing else, it's money.†   (source)
  • You could go around through Torricelli and Novylen and eventually reach Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • He found us in Hong Kong and he's zeroing in on me and my family, on my wife and my children.†   (source)
  • If we lose a Governor tonight we may be on our way to losing Hong Kong in a matter of days.†   (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)
  • Nor was I in Hong Kong, and I'm certainly not now.†   (source)
  • I was clerking in a Hindu shop, eating money, no more, when I saw this ad in the Hong Kong Gong.†   (source)
  • There must be twenty million typewriters in Hong Kong.'†   (source)
  • Should have been, at thirty-two Hong Kong dollars.†   (source)
  • Beijing would march into Hong Kong and take over.†   (source)
  • We said they could stay on or resign; then those we needed, we rehired with 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)
  • It's the Jackal-by way of Hong Kong and Macao, but it's still the Jackal.†   (source)
  • But business was cover for politics; liaison with Hong Kong had been thin.†   (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)
  • Hong Kong in six minutes if we don't "bump into anybody".†   (source)
  • Mike, these news stories and our message to F.N. all assume that we have won in Hong Kong.†   (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)
  • The conspiracy is alive and well and coming from Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong was the essence of survival; one worked furiously or one did not survive.†   (source)
  • 'All he'd have to hear is that I'm in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • She needed a favour quickly, and in Hong Kong that meant dealing with a person one knew.†   (source)
  • Marie hoped she would be fair in Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • Hong Kong's concealing nothing, nor does it care to.†   (source)
  • The out islands north of Hong Kong would be visible in less than half an hour.†   (source)
  • There had been a brief pause on the line from Hong Kong.†   (source)
  • You pursue your "outrageous" accusations, he pulls Peking out of the Hong Kong Accords.†   (source)
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