Word: banqueting
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Then, four days later, things really got bad. The banquet honoring TV commercials was canceled outright when the Clio company couldn't come up with the cash...
Finally, after nearly a month of payless paydays, the entire 11-member Clio staff quit at the end of May. The bizarre banquet now seems like a wake for a Madison Avenue institution. Don Catterson, a new Clio spokesman, blames the company's collapse on staff intrigues and predicts Clio's return next year. Others are not so sure that the man who made a fortune off the image business will ever recover from an image problem...
...visit, the prince was sent off with a fancy Harvard banquet, and Harvard was left with a Prince Turki Professorship in Urology. How appropriate...
Advice runs from the obvious ("Avoid statements like 'The food looks pathetic,' " urges a guidebook) to the arcane (a third of the predinner cocktail hour is devoted to group instruction in the body language of handshaking and other niceties). The three-hour banquet is awesomely all inclusive: "Soup, salad, what do you do with this fork, coffee, napkins, excusing yourself, dessert, any final questions and then we break it up," says Jane McGrath, DePaul's career-planning and placement director. Thus, as DePaul students enter the backstabbing world of business, at least they will know on which side...
...EAGLE-TRIBUNE of Lawrence, Mass., located only 10 miles from Sununu's home in Salem, N.H., invited the chief of staff to speak at a newspaper banquet in June 1990. Sununu declared the trip to be official business and flew to Lawrence on an Air Force jet, accompanied by an undisclosed number of his family members. The newspaper, according to one of its editors, reimbursed the government $1,920 for the family's airfares...