Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France's new conservative government, Premier Jacques Chirac has left no doubt about where he stands on major issues. But where does Chirac sit? For most of last week, protocol experts were trying to determine whether Chirac or President Francois Mitterrand should occupy France's seat at the opening banquet in Tokyo next month, along with President Ronald Reagan and five other leaders of the world's major industrialized countries. Both Chirac, the head of government, and Mitterrand, the head of state, will be attending the Tokyo meeting...
Judges will select one senior faculty member, one junior faculty member, and one teaching fellow, who will receive the awards at a May 1 banquet, said Arti K. Srivastava '87, a member of the council's Academics Committee...
University officials at the upstate campus will begin the scheduled 10-month conversion which will produce a hotel and conference center with 122 rooms and six to eight suites. Tentative plans also include installing a cocktail lounge, a banquet room and an indoor swimming pool...
...players, who had expected to see him at a football banquet scheduled for Sunday night, were told of his death by assistant coach Mark Duffner at a 3 p.m. meeting...
...Islamic fundamentalists who govern Iran have never been known for tact. Iranian President Seyed Ali Khamene'i proved that anew last week during a visit to Zimbabwe, when he refused to attend a state banquet in his honor because women were present and wine was to be served. Khamene'i demanded that all women attending, including Cabinet ministers and the wife of the President, don veils and sit at a table in a far corner of the room. An hour of frantic negotiations ensued, but neither side would budge. Finally, the dinner went on without Khamene...