Word: bal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week and groping toward protest or endorsement, labor leaders were practically organized for the occasion. Reagan's speech coincided with the winter meeting of the AFL-CIO executive council, a group made up of heads of 32 major unions representing 13.6 million workers. Skies were cloudy above the Bal Harbour, Fla., meeting, which was dominated by behind-the-scenes discussion of Reagan's program...
...Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has long pursued a strongly nationalist policy that tried to lower the proportion of foreign ownership of sensitive economic areas. But, so far, the American reaction to the Canadian invasion has been warm. In the mile-square beachfront community of Surfside, Fla., near affluent Bal Harbour, Canadian businessmen have almost finished two high-rise condominiums, valued at $46 million. Next month the town will hold its annual "Salute to Canada" week...
...times, for example, there are very few signs of a world in the chips. Yet, on a given street on a given day, Rolls-Royces idle bumper to splendid bumper; the air is soaked in Bal a Versailles; diamonds go like Tic Tacs. From now to Christmas The New Yorker will be heaving with ads for crystal yaks and other lavish doodads in "limited editions," for which one assumes there must be buyers. Saks Fifth Avenue, which advertises itself as all the things we are, has recently decided that we are a 14-karat gold charge plate ($750). Of course...
...which seems to be in her soul and her bones. As adapter of Petipa, she may do some editing and smoothing out. The work is a fresh glimpse into another style and should settle in as an exotic addition to A.B.T.'s eclectic repertory. How often at the bal let does one get to see the walls come tumbling down? -Martha Duffy
...fogies," as they call each other behind closed elevator doors. You can just hear them over the muzak. "He's just an old fogie. His hands shake. He has liver spots. He is almost dead." Oh sunny sandy southern peninsula, home of The Fountainbleu, The Princess, The Bal Harbour Regency...