Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then set out to catch John Walker red-handed. Apparently at the bureau's urging, Barbara visited her former husband in Norfolk in April. She did not tell him that she had been in touch with the authorities. During her stay, she said John bragged that if caught spying he would become "a celebrity and go down in history." Barbara told the Cape Cod newspaper that her ex-husband had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years by the Soviets, adding bitterly: "John's a big spender. His girlfriends were very expensive...
...final catchall (or, more accurately, catch-a-bit), the Administration proposes to tighten somewhat the minimum tax on both individuals and corporations. At present, corporations supposedly pay a tax of 15%, and individuals 20%, on income that otherwise would escape federal levies, but there are so many exceptions that a fair number of millionaires and highly profitable companies still pay no tax at all or very little. The Administration intends to make the rate 20% for both types of taxpayers, and to subject more kinds of income to the minimum tax. But though President Reagan made a major point...
...GOATS AND DONKEY'S NEITHER BOUGHT NOR SOLD/WE DON'T RENT PIGS"). It isn't that life in town can't be dangerous. One can always fall off a porch, get snakebit picking up a jug or risk Tex-Mex cooking. The recipe for varmint stew: "Whatever the dogs catch. Or the dogs themselves, if they don't manage to catch nothing...
Some new drinking and socializing trends involve no alcohol at all. The "power tea" is starting to catch on with businessmen in big cities. Rather than gathering for whiskey at the cocktail hour, executives are collecting in hotel lobbies from The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fla., to the Mansion in Dallas for decaffeinated Darjeeling and little sandwiches. Businessmen and -women talk deals at Boston's Ritz-Carlton, which offers a variety of teas, steeped in floral china pots. New York City's WaldorfAstoria reinstated tea service just over one year ago. Says Food and Beverage Director Thomas Monetti: "People like...
...shift in attitude toward alcohol when he returned to the U.S. last year after four years in Central America. "The newspapers were filled with articles on tougher drunken-driving legislation," he says. "Roadblocks that I equated with military searches for antigovernment guerrillas were being used by U.S. police to catch violators. And everyone was drinking wine, mineral water and fruit juices...