Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaks appear to have occurred at plants where Business Week is printed in Old Saybrook, Conn., and Torrance, Calif. Investigators were looking into reports that Dillon had been meeting at breakfast on Thursday mornings with printers coming off the night shift at the Connecticut plant. Dillon may have used the information to buy stocks on Thursday, then sold them at a profit the following Monday. The broker, who could face fraud charges, reportedly admitted to co-workers that his tips came from Business Week, but claimed he was getting an early copy at a newsstand. Investigators are uncertain whether...
...more of the smart same. Young MacPee-wee has a farm that is a sort of summer camp -- high camp -- for animals. In the barn, the sheep and cow sleep in beds. For breakfast the horse flaps pancakes, and Pee-wee's talking-pig pal devours them. At the hint of a hurricane, Pee-wee leads his brood into the storm cellar ("Women and chickens first!") and dresses them in party hats. Because there are no other humans on the farm and few children nearby, Pee-wee is his own role model, his only playmate, and the film...
Dukakis could have spared himself some angst by calling Jackson before 8 a.m. Tuesday. Even allowing for breakfast and a shower, he had the time. Was his failure to do so deliberately designed to show his frustration with what he perceived as Jackson's perpetual grandstanding? More likely it was that the Dukakis inner circle did not want to give the image of kowtowing to Jackson. But Jackson, as Mario Cuomo points out, "is not like the other defeated candidates. Nobody has an influence with 7 million voters like his influence with his people. Why must Dukakis treat him differently...
That occasioned Bentsen's biggest blunder in Washington. Shortly after he took over as chairman, Bentsen sent a letter to lobbyists and political-action committees, establishing a breakfast club. For a $10,000 fee, a lobbyist could have ham and eggs monthly with the Senator. Bentsen was just one of many Senators offering access for money in one of the many variations that hover this side of illegality. But the baldness of the approach and the fact that he had no real re-election challenge that required raising the money caused the Eggs McBentsen affair to unleash a storm...
Government officials and tourism industry leaders are scrambling to counter the negative image and limit the loss of revenues. Some hotels offer package plans with twelve months to pay. One five-star Eilat hotel provides a three- day stay with breakfast and bus transportation from anywhere in the country for $151 a person...