Word: cater
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change were motivated by a series of surveys and meetings with customers conducted by a outside marketing research group, bank officials said. Holmes said that the renovations reflect an attempt to cater to a more youthful and affluent community...
Since that time, Stanford has raised teaching assistants' salaries "significantly" and tried to cater to their specific needs, Goetz says...
...order to get to the top of the ticket, a contender had to show broad-based appeal to a variety of bosses and tribal groups. But these days the process is so long and so many people run that it rewards those who can arouse the sectarian resentments or cater to the particular demands of fervent factions, notes Political Scientist Nelson Polsby...
Judges Norris and Canby refuted some commonly cited reasons for excluding gays, including hostility from other soldiers and a threat to morale. Wrote Norris: "Even granting special deference to the policy choices of the military, we must reject many of the Army's asserted justifications because they illegitimately cater to private biases." Judge Stephen Reinhardt dissented, arguing that he was bound by earlier cases, but denounced antigay laws and regulations and predicted some precedents would one day be overturned. "Were I free to apply my own view" of the Constitution, he wrote, "I too would conclude that the Army...
Weiss, who handles the restaurant's business operations, said renovations at 95b Winthrop St. will hit high gear over the next two months and may be done in time to cater a private Passover dinner in early April...