Word: cater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agriculture Department, Foreman argues, used to cater solely to the interests of food processors and big farmers, and her goal is to make it "the people's department" that Abraham Lincoln had envisioned. The processors and many farmers complain that she is hurting agriculture, in part because she is calling for severe restrictions on food additives and for more detailed product labeling. Nebraska Republican Congresswoman Virginia Smith, expressing a view common in the farm belt, protested: "Carol Tucker Foreman, one of agriculture's biggest enemies, is at work right now discrediting the meat industry and causing the public to lose...
...staff of regular characters assembles. There is Mary (Victoria Plucknett), Louisa's adoring assistant, and Major Smith-Barton (Richard Vernon), a guest at the hotel who becomes his landlady's sidekick and confidant. Comic relief appears with Merriman (John Welsh), a teetering old headwaiter, and Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally answers. Christopher Cazenove lends his Arrow-shirt ad good looks as Charlie Tyrrell, alternately Louisa's benefactor, lover and friend...
...years ago said then that "We have never really abandoned the principle of General Education. But the present General Education guidelines are ineffective and worn down." The Task Force's report was a bit more biting: noting the number of Nat Sci courses that had sprung up to cater to the needs of non-science types, it concluded that the needs of non-science types, it concluded that the Nat Sci requirement "can be met in any number of way which insure that the student will not learn, or even observe from a safe distance, science...
...profit. Next week he will rebate all of it to his 2,000 regular customers, of whose spending he kept account, at a rate of 30%. One customer, who spent $1,000 at WE, will thus receive $300 in cash; the city of Pontiac, which had him cater two parties, will...
...presence of students on financial aid has made an impression on these Lowell kitchen worker. It is--to them--a sign that Harvard does not cater only to the rich, and they do not see Harvard strictly as an elite institution open only to the offspring of the wealthy. "I think anybody who works hard can get in," Thelma says. "I think it's fair in that respect. I know many kids who have to work everyday and go to classes, too, and that's not easy." Pat adds, "Even the rich kids don't make a big show about...