Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three weeks, both sides skirmished, with tit-for-tat briefings by experts, breakfast discussions and discreet lobbying. On the eve of the vote, the Administration was confident, but anticipated a narrow margin. Instead, the override attempt lost, 191 to 206, falling 74 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Much of Carter's support came from Democratic liberals who opposed the carrier. Moreover, many members shared Texas Democrat George Mahon's reluctance to "repudiate the President at a time when he needs strength in his quest for peace in the Middle East...
...biggest automaker (1977 sales: 42,874 vehicles), and GM together account for 26% of the automotive market. Goodyear, General and Firestone dominate tire sales; Exxon, Mobil and Caltex are leaders at the fuel pumps. Kellogg's cereals are found on 40% of South Africa's breakfast tables, and Otis elevators convey riders in two of every five office buildings. IBM enjoys a near monopoly in data processing, challenged only by Control Data. Even though embargoes prevent U.S. companies from selling South African manufactured goods in almost all black African markets, most of the firms are thriving on domestic...
Nowhere has the dollar faded so badly as in Japan, where it has shrunk by 40% in a year. Confronted with a $2.50 can of beer, a $5 breakfast or a $30 minute-steak lunch, Americans beat a hasty retreat?"chuckling in amazement," says a shopkeeper on Tokyo's Ginza. Says a veteran tourist who is staying at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, where the cheapest room for two is $80 a night: "It's just plain scandalous. I never thought I'd see the day when the greenback would turn into Mickey Mouse money. It really hurts my pride...
...balloonists were 600 miles northeast of St. John's, Newfoundland, flying at 15,000 ft. The temperature was down to zero in the gondola, but angora long Johns and a portable heater kept the men from suffering frostbite. Their menus, chosen by their wives, consisted of a breakfast of hot coffee or cocoa with doughnuts and raisins; high-protein sardines and hot dogs later in the day; and plenty of vitamins...
...debate at the A.B.A. Convention, however, was heated. Quoting from Thomas Jefferson's diary reference to "soliciting pettifoggers," Joe Stamper of Antlers, Okla., urged his fellow lawyers not to "equate legal services with soap and breakfast foods." But Roger Brosnahan, chairman of the A.B.A.'s Commission on Advertising, argued that "television advertising is not abused where it is permitted. The purpose of legal advertising is not to enhance the incomes of lawyers but to inform the public...