Word: banquetting
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...Deng astonished everyone by showing up at a Peking banquet, using his old title of Vice Premier. It was soon clear that he had been rehabilitated to take over the day-to-day running of the government from Chou, who was succumbing to cancer. Deng also assumed operating control of the party and the military. Chastened at first but then with growing sureness, he helped Chou map out the ambitious Four Modernizations program, announced in January...
...back in Tulane Stadium at Super Bowl IX. "The few of us who spent half our Steeler careers with a hopeless bottom team gazed around that field at each other and at the younger players. They had no idea." The starving team from the starving town at the great banquet. "They had absolutely no idea." X Pittsburgh Steelers 21 Dallas Cowboys...
...company's suppliers. In 2004, more than 6,500 representatives of suppliers and factories underwent the standards training. When Tang visits a factory, he sticks a cardboard placard on the table announcing the company's policy: no gifts, no kickbacks. He won't even sit for the traditional Chinese banquet. Some "officials are pretty moved when they see that because they're used to a different way," says Hatfield...
...ridicule reached such ubiquity in March that even President Bush felt obliged to take a jab at President Summers. At a dinner in Washington, Bush said he was disappointed Summers could not attend the event, noting his presence had been required “at the Madame Curie awards banquet...
...insanity. In his 2002 book I Do, I Do, I Do, the Taiwan-born, New York-based photographer cast a jaundiced eye on the florid excesses of the wedding industry in his native island: the countless gaudy outfits thrown on and off for the wedding portrait, the banquet dinner that could fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried beneath the heavy makeup, the costumes, the confetti, the expectations. In his newest book Double Happiness, Chang digs deeper, documenting the made-to-order marriages of Taiwan men and their Vietnamese brides...