Word: cafeteria
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...were those two men quaffing a friendly beer together in the Bundestag cafeteria? They were, as it happened, none other than West Germany's two foremost political rivals. Only the week before, Opposition Leader Rainer Barzel had tried and failed by a bare margin of two votes to overthrow Chancellor Willy Brandt. But over beer and in countless hurried conferences, the two men were seeking to find a mutual way out of a severe parliamentary crisis that threatened to have grave repercussions far beyond the borders of the Federal Republic...
...Camden the following week a little reluctantly because I didn't want to face Alan as he had told me his name was. But he gave me two more towels and what could I do but agree to have tea? Accordingly after the swim I went upstairs to the cafeteria that was part of the Camden complex--they had another pool for training and indoor tennis courts and a gymnasium--and waited for about fifteen minutes, reading, until he could get a break--probably with a lot of teasing from the other lifeguard on duty that...
...administrative vice presidents and 45 garden-variety v.p.s; now the respective totals are four and 38. At Jones & Laughlin Steel's Pittsburgh works, job cuts have bred a strange situation: some high-seniority steelworkers have been kept on only by being bumped to the lower-paying plant cafeteria, where they have replaced waitresses who in turn have been shunted to menial jobs in the mill so that the lowest-seniority workers could...
...suicide seemed out of all proportion to the comparatively minor unrest at the school, but it did have a certain brutal eloquence. On the day last week that Cabell's death was announced over the school's public address system, some blacks in the cafeteria mistakenly thought a group of whites were applauding his death. The fighting started all over again...
...world." Which is just what she is. Janie graduated from Robert E. Lee Institute in Thomaston, Ga., in 1965, decided to enroll in a business course at the local vocational school. "I didn't like any of it," she says, "especially the charm course. One day in the cafeteria the welding teacher walked by and said, 'What's the matter? You look like you've lost your last friend.' When I told him how bored I was, he invited me to welding class. I was excited by all that fire and light, so I enrolled...