Word: cater
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are no exact figures, but owners of a number of leading restaurants estimate that more than 50% of their lunch business comes from expense-account customers. Sometimes business spending approaches 100%, especially in luncheon clubs and restaurants that cater to conventions. Says Stig Jorgensen, manager of the Midnight Sun in Atlanta's convention area: "We figure 65% of our volume is business-related. If we lost even 10% of that, it would put people out of work...
...They cater to singles, couples and triples, straights and gays and feys, blacks and whites, the well-shaped or the merely well-heeled-and just about anyone else who yearns to break out of 9-to-5 humdrum into a space-age world of mesmeric lighting, Neronian dècor and, of course, music, music, music. They are the new breed of discothèque, moth-gathering hotpots of the urban night. Discomania is the latest passion of faddish, fickle American city dwellers, turning daytime Jekylls and Jacquelines into nocturnal and nonma-levolent Hydes and Heidis gyrating through smoke...
...great length of the concert also shows the band's faithfulness to their tradition. Common wisdom has it that they cater to the four- or five-hour peak of an acid trip, and so they did at Springfield. The size and anxiety of the crowd indicated an equally enormous amount of commitment and planning. Thousands stood in line in the rain as early as five o'clock, and many were showing the signs of a "heightened awareness" by then. The gentleman to my left, for example, who had shaved half his head and tied what was left of his hair...
...administration has refused to accept its responsibility toward women and minorities in the Harvard community. Instead of taking the affirmative steps necessary to counteract a tradition which does not cater to our needs and interests, Harvard has maintained the unrealistically ideal assumption that every interest group is on equal social and financial footing here...
...blustery impatience. "I don't publish a magazine for the mentally ill," he replied. The same comment in one of his Hustler editorials would have been worded "retards" rather than "mentally ill." While other skin magazine publishers, such as Bob Guccione of Penthouse or Al Goldstein of Screw, consciously cater to a readership less educated or sophisticated than they, Flynt is probably representative of a Hustler subscriber...