Word: bar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bush Green, and you can easily imagine yourself in any of central * London's small, discreet hotels. The woman at the front desk will offer a cordial greeting as you check in, tell you about the facilities and invite you to have tea or a drink at the bar. Unless, of course, you are a man. In that case, you will be urged, very graciously, to leave...
...Reeves is the first and only one of its kind in Britain -- a hotel designed exclusively for women. Though the owners cannot by law refuse male guests, no man has stayed in the rooms, which cost about $75 a night, or been served in the bar since the hotel opened in February 1988. "We're not hostile to men," says manager and co-owner Carole Reeves. "We're just trying to put women first. Men's needs are catered to quite adequately in other hotels...
Among the women's chief complaints are outdated attitudes, poor facilities and inattention to security. "If you're looked up and down by a haughty hotel doorman who assumes you're a hooker, it's not very welcoming," says the BWTC's marketing coordinator, Trisha Cochrane. In hotel bars, the survey found, a woman alone must often wait to be served because the bartender assumes that someone will be joining her. In the meantime, she is left to fend off the attentions of other patrons at the bar. Said a respondent: "I'm tired of being chatted up by every...
...competitors for help with the hype. ABC is running commercials for its fall shows in movie theaters. CBS is stuffing brochures inside boxes of blank Maxell videocassettes. NBC is doing the same with Scotch cassettes. ABC is targeting the VCR user with a more high-tech gimmick: a special bar code in the network's November TV Guide ads will enable owners of specially equipped models of Panasonic VCRs to record certain ABC shows automatically...
...answer, say plaintiffs' lawyers, is usually "not enough" for those who sign up with the insurance companies. Friendly letters urging families and survivors to take the settlements initially offered to them -- and suggesting that they shouldn't consult a lawyer -- are anathema to the aviation bar. According to Gerald Sterns, a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in air- crash litigation, "These letters can be very dangerous for the victims if they decide later to file a lawsuit. The insurance company's concern is damage control. What they're doing is developing a rapport with the victims and duping them...