Word: cater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every year since 1938, about a dozen newspapermen have come to Harvard and have been paid to do whatever they want under the Nieman Fellowship program. During their stay they have the run of the College and the professional schools. Faculty and administrators cater respectfully to their desires. In June they return to their jobs, hopefully taking with them some knowledge that will make them better journalists...
Most Baltimoreans, who regard their Casbah as a civic asset, were relieved that it would not disappear entirely. "A well-planned city should cater to all sorts of impulses," City Planner David A. Wallace once noted. "Though the Block's appeal is to the saucier impulses, it adds a very needed liveliness which many cities lack. Baltimore should be grateful...
...pointed out long ago from personal experience, there are several varieties of homosexuals that the heterosexual world lumps together but that "feel an irrepressible loathing for one another." Today in the U.S., there are "mixed" bars where all homosexuals, male and female, are persona grata; "cuff-linky" bars that cater to the college and junior-executive type; "swish" bars for the effeminates and "hair fairies" with their careful coiffures; "TV" bars, which cater not to television fans but to transvestites; "leather" bars for the tough-guy types with their fondness for chains and belts; San Francisco's new "Topless...
...company's best export market, served by a fleet of Guinness ships plying the Irish Sea, surtaxes are costing Guinness $1,400,000 a year. To balance such expenses, Guinness is diversifying considerably. The company now owns several British candy firms, along with 200 candy stores that cater to the below-the-beer-age market. It also controls two pharmaceutical firms in Ireland and a land-development company...
...pioneered by Transamerica. Beckett wants "to blanket the U.S., Canada and Europe" with Transamerica financial services. By feeding business from one Transamerica subsidiary to another, and eventually selling all of the company's services through single outlets, he aims to create a financial empire outside banking that will cater to almost every money need...