Word: buffetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taking Turkey. Companies are also de-escalating the scale of their Christmas parties. A Chicago brokerage house spent $40,000 last year on a sit-down dinner for all staff members and their wives at the plush Hotel Ambassador East. This year the firm is settling for a buffet in a Loop restaurant, omitting wives and limiting the total outlay to $1,000. At Swank, Inc., a Massachusetts jewelry manufacturer, the 3,200 employees voted to skip their usual Christmas party and floor show and to accept 3,200 turkeys instead. The chiefs of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance...
...there. HENRY JACKSON. Money has not been one of Scoop Jackson's worries, and it will not be a problem as primary season opens. With Humphrey holding back, Jackson is the most successful Democrat at pulling in big money at fund-raisers; at a $ 1,000-a-couple buffet two weeks ago, he netted close to $200,000. The key figure is Stanley Golub, a Seattle wholesale jeweler who went to law school with...
...insatiable curiosity about her. "Joan is not basically an outgoing person," says Kathy Beatty. And Joan admits that despite the starry existence people imagine she leads, "my life is rather lonely. When we entertain, it's just a few for dinner. And once in a while a bigger buffet-usually after a concert." There are also long hours spent presiding over family affairs. The Kennedy home in suburban McLean, Va., is superbly managed by a French cook, a governess, a social secretary, a gardener, a regular cleaning woman and various fill-ins. But Joan pays all the family...
...drinks, the Auto-Train will seem like Queen Elizabeth 2 on wheels. For adults, there will be cocktails and complimentary hors d'oeuvres in each of the 13 full-dome coaches. The kids will be entertained with cartoons and a G-rated movie. At 9 p.m., a sitdown buffet will be served (Beef Wellington or lobster), followed by another movie for the grownups and drinks until 3 a.m. in a lounge complete with vocalist. For an extra $40, a couple can have a compartment that includes TV set and breakfast...
...tougher trunks. Trees, conclude the authors, have evolved a supersensitive response to shaking, whether by a breeze or by hand. Thus, in any forest or glade, nature has ensured that the relatively delicate, fast-growing trees of the interior are guarded by a sturdy defense against the winds that buffet the forest fringe...