Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades the public arena has been his brother's territory. It was usually Bob who chatted with reporters, Bob who worked the crowds at cocktail parties. It was also Bob Tisch who created a growing New York social institution, the power breakfast. One favored spot for early morning conferences is the Loews-owned Regency Hotel on Manhattan's Park Avenue, where the rich and famous, along with people who merely aspire to be, can be found eating two eggs and bacon (price...
...work force. Some 90 positions in the news division were included. Emotions flamed higher when the network announced the removal from the air, effective next January, of the CBS Morning News, a program that cost $34 million annually to produce but perennially finished last in the breakfast sweepstakes. In his syndicated newspaper column, 60 Minutes Commentator Andy Rooney wrote, "CBS . . . no longer stands for anything. They're just corporate initials...
Pack a universal drain stopper for Samarkand and a pepper mill on any trip. If you fancy a great British breakfast in London, bypass Claridge's and make for Fred's, a transport cafe in the East End docks. If you want to find the "timeless serenity" of the Tuscan master, Piero della Francesca -- well, there are a number of things you should do, and they are all set out with a welcome absence of guidebook rhetoric or literary flourish in this insistently readable book. The author, who was London bureau chief of the New York Times from...
...disparate lines of business that ranged from luggage to toys to women's clothing. Now many are discovering that their eyes were bigger than their stomach, and they are getting back to basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that it would split into two companies. The Kraft portion will...
...participants, the day starts at 4:30 a.m. After calisthenics and breakfast, drill instructors inspect lockers while inmates stand rigidly at attention. By 8 o'clock, it is time for military maneuvers, conducted to the cadence of the drill instructor. Sloppy performance is punishable by an on- the-spot demand for push-ups. Most recruits are quick to comply, since they are being graded on physical training, response to authority and motivation. Low marks can result in an extension of time in the program...