Hu is seen as a "Zhou Enlai II" - a kind man who doesn't put on airs, the antithesis of a pompous bureaucrat.

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She refused to put on airs, however.

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At about the time the American sturgeon catch was starting to tap out, fish eggs from the Caspian Sea were beginning to put on their cosmopolitan French airs.

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