Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironic and unjust that Bill Clinton stayed in a four-bedroom suite at the Waldorf-Astoria last month for the United Nations' 50th anniversary that cost America $6,000 per night, at the same time that babies in Detroit or Los Angeles were being born into poverty so great their parents do not have the means to feed them? Or is it simply the beauty of capitalism...
...premises on New York's Park Avenue but also by posh offices in London's Mayfair district. White-uniformed butlers glide around serving executives catered gourmet lunches at their desks. Many clients receive annual invitations to conferences like one held in July at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. In 1992, on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Investcorp threw a lavish party at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. Guests nibbled on caviar served from ice sculptures and strolled under garlands of peonies adorned with caged songbirds. When major deals are in the works, senior executives zoom across the Atlantic...
America's Favorite Grandmother, the author of the best-selling Barbara Bush: A Memoir, is sitting on the plumped-up cushions of a luxurious suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers and revealing another side. It's not one that rhymes with rich, as she so famously characterized Geraldine Ferraro, her husband's 1984 vice-presidential rival, but not one that's soft and cuddly either. Pose a question about the Clintons, and she will snap,"Oh, them. This is supposed to be about my book." Point out that her pro-choice stance is totally at odds with her husband...
...doing this only because we're angry?" After securing a $1 billion line of credit from the Bank of New York last Monday, the Robertses were ready to strike. They began placing calls to Diller at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, hoping to arrange a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel that evening. Discovering that Diller was en route to New York City from Los Angeles with CBS entertainment president Howard Stringer and others, father and son hastily arranged to meet the plane at an airport in Teterboro, New Jersey. Diller alighted and read their letter. Then he canceled plans...
...highly personal kind of deal, done in a quiet hallway of a New York City hotel, man to man. The place was the Waldorf Astoria, and the players were Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T, and Craig McCaw, head of McCaw Cellular Communications. In the middle of an edgy negotiation, they had left their factotums, emissaries and lieutenants behind and paced the corridor together for just 20 minutes before shaking hands on a transaction in which the largest U.S. telephone company would buy the No. 1 provider of cellular service for $12.6 billion in stock. In the process, Craig McCaw...