Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Earthquake damage is crudely patched if repaired at all; the public crematorium is a factory where the dead are reduced unceremoniously to convenient size; his wife's childhood home, once a center of culture and comfort, is only a notch above a slum tenement: "Radiators turned cold after breakfast. The faucets went dry at 8 a.m. and did not run again until evening. The bathtub had no stopper. You flushed the toilet with buckets of water...
...Solidarity delegation from the city of Radom, which warned him it was going to call a general strike that would affect an important armaments factory. Walesa was furious to find such a strike was being considered, and the men had argued for hours. At breakfast, he made peace with the delegation, which agreed to put off the strike. "lam absolutely finished and run down," he said later. "I have more problems than the hairs on my head." Then, in his last major interview before the military takeover, Lech Walesa talked to TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik about his work, his hopes...
...turns into a pumpkin at midnight. The guests are too busy devouring an early breakfast and gyrating to the White Animals. By state law, the booze has to stop flowing at 2. It does, and Fitch calls it a night. But the White Animals continue, and so do the revelers. At 4 a.m., the remaining stalwarts head off to various homes for a nightcap. For Mimi, it has been a "very quick fairy tale." She has even less time to savor it. At 11:30, there will be a luncheon in her honor...
Long familiarity enables the three to talk in a kind of clipped shorthand, and on occasion they even finish each other's sentences. Over the second course (cold cereal for Baker and Meese, a Western omelet for Deaver) the breakfast talk turned to a prospective White House order allowing striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization to be hired for some Government jobs (though not again as controllers). Meese suggested some precise lawyerly language. Said Baker: "I think the PATCO stuff came out . . . " Deaver finished: ". . . just the way it should have...
Regan, something of a slow starter, was overshadowed at first by Budget Director David Stockman. That prompted Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, a longtime friend, to observe: "One day Don Regan is going to wake up and eat David Stockman for breakfast." Regan has not done that, but he has become increasingly dominant. When Stockman began urging new taxes for 1982 to reduce the deficit, Regan dissuaded the President. He has managed to keep a diverse group of monetarists, pragmatists and supply-siders in harness at Treasury...