meeting, they are handed an envelope with a sum of money in it as a bonus.
The Vietnamese currency, the dong, is exchanged at a rate of 11,000 dong to
the US dollar. The Vietnamese name for the prison which was immortalized
here in the US as the 'Hanoi Hilton'. ‘The Woman and the Little Dog’. In the
story, the woman’s dog plays a role in the lovers' first meeting. The name a
Vietnamese businessman who got famously rich through an illegal pyramid
scheme. Eggs that are incubated until the duck fetus is three-quarters
developed, then boiled and eaten. Folk wisdom holds that they are a
powerful aphrodisiac. When, after the Japanese surrender and subsequent
withdrawal from Vietnam at the end of WWII, Ho Chi Minh took up a
collection of valuables from the citizenry. It is said that the money was then
given as a kind of bribe to the Chinese general that had been designated by
the Allied Powers to oversee North Vietnam. A propaganda campaign
during the war encouraging women to shoulder the 'Three Responsibilities'
of home, production, and fighting the war. ‘Renovation’. A policy of social
and economic reform. A bridge near Hanoi which was built with Russian
aid. A common phenomena under the new‘socialist market economy’,
government agencies have been opening businesses unrelated to their proper
mission as a means of income generation. ‘Wait for me’. A form of
downsizing used by bloated government enterprises. The worker is laid off
but continues to receive 70 percent of his or her salary. Soap distributed free
to government employees, usually of vastly inferior quality. Normally no
one would care if 21 bars of such soap was lost. Referring to Alphonse
Daudet’s ‘The Stars’. 1. Chuyển vùng trong suốt (seamless roaming): Là
tính năng hỗ trợ người sử dụng thiết bị di động kết nối liên tục trong suốt
quá trình chuyển vùng từ vùng phủ sóng này sang vùng phủ sóng khác 19.
Nguyên văn: Flesch-Kincaid (F-K) grade-level algorithm. 20. Lois Lowry là
tác giả sách thiếu nhi người Mỹ, với hơn 30 tác phẩm rất được yêu thích. Bà
là tác giả quyển sách ăn khách The Giver (xuất bản ở Việt Nam với tựa
Người truyền ký ức) đã được dựng thành phim vào năm 2014. 1. Nguyên
văn: sound like a broken record – ý nói tác giả đã nhắc lại nhiều đến mức
“nhão băng, cong đĩa”. 1. TED là một chuỗi các buổi hội thảo do quỹ