Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lenders report that some consumers are so intent on getting the best possible interest rate that they delay closing a deal to wait for one more dip. Says George Engelke, executive vice president of Astoria Federal Savings in New York City: "It's good, old-fashioned playing the market...
...York's cultural offerings has tested the resourcefulness of the U.N. staff, which was able last week to produce, on short notice, tickets to the opening night of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera for Poland's Jaruzelski. New York hotels are braced for the onslaught. The venerable Waldorf-Astoria, well trained in the care and feeding of outsize egos (Frank Sinatra and Lee Iacocca maintain permanent residences in the Waldorf Towers), employs a "flagman," whose sole duty is to keep track of the 115 foreign flags that the hotel keeps on hand and to fly the right ones...
...port of entry and always a slightly hysterical place, is now becoming even more eclectic, more jazzed up and redolent. Manhattan has a Ukrainian neighborhood that overlaps Polish and Puerto Rican sections, Brooklyn a Lebanese quarter just north of formerly Scandinavian, now Hispanic, Sunset Park. In the Balkanized Astoria neighborhood -- one part of one borough -- there are some 5,000 Croatians from Yugoslavia; 1,800 Colombians; 6,200 immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored his new neighborhood recently, one Flushing resident...
Even in the era of big lottery prizes, the jackpot was oversize: Patrick Ewing, 7-ft. star of Georgetown University's Hoyas. At a nationally televised drawing at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, seven teams that failed to make ) this year's National Basketball Association playoffs vied for the right to take first pick in pro basketball's June 18 draft. First choice meant Ewing. In a church service on the morning of the lottery, New York Knicks Executive Vice President Dave DeBusschere called for heavenly assistance. "I said some prayers," he recalled. "And then I thought...
...researchers will formally accept their prizes at a luncheon at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April...