Word: banqueting
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...series of games will be organized by the Hawaii Rugby Union. In addition to the rugby contests, the organization will offer several other functions, such as campus visits and a banquet for the participating teams...
...took over and closed off the modernist Civic Center for its newsroom (and already has it booked for 1988). NBC set up shop in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Savery in downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into a Holiday Inn banquet room. As usual, the networks raced ahead of the results: ABC, the last to predict Mondale's landslide, did so 15 minutes after voting began. The early projections were considered spoilsport at best, electoral meddling at worst. Colorado Democrat Timothy Wirth, chairman of the House Telecommunications Subcommittee, urged the networks...
Australian diplomats traveling in China with Prime Minister Bob Hawke were the first to convey the news to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. When the two leaders sat down at a state banquet, Zhao turned to Hawke and asked, "Who do you think will succeed Andropov?" The official Chinese message to Moscow was brief but surprisingly warm, noting: "It is the sincere desire of the Chinese government to see relations between the two countries normalized...
...annual gala marking the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov. 7, his ten comrades on the Communist Party's ruling Politburo neatly sidestepped the protocol problem. Instead of forming a line to shake hands with their guests, they bunched together behind their table in a Kremlin banquet hall. It was symbolic confirmation of the vexing problem that faced the Soviet Union as it prepared for the second transition of power in only 15 months: there was no obvious candidate to fill the vacancy left by Andropov. Says Cornell University Political Scientist Myron Rush: "Since nobody is in a strong...
...state reception following Brezhnev's funeral, many foreign dignitaries were struck by the telltale signs of frailty and age that belied his reputation for mental agility. During the visit of Finnish President Mauno Koivisto in June 1983, Andropov had to be helped to his seat at a Kremlin banquet. When the Soviet leader met with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl the following month, his eyes were clear and alert, but his right hand visibly shook...