Word: cater
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rental cars and hotels, real estate and mortgages--that can reach consumers at home, at work or at play. In pursuit of that strategy, HFS last week agreed to pay $175 million for Value Rent-a-Car of Boca Raton, Florida, which has a string of 45 locations that cater to vacationers. Value will complement Avis' operations, which are largely oriented to business travel. And even as HFS drove off with its deal, Silverman was completing the $1.7 billion purchase of PHH, a mortgage, fleet-management and executive-relocation company...
Thornton, you see, wants to have his box of chocolates and hack it to pieces, too. Directing his own self-scripted performance (did he cater it, too?), Thornton plays Karl Childers, a mildly retarded mental patient who, in his late thirties, is released back into the small Southern town he left twenty-five years before. That, you see, was the day he found Mama in bed with a neighbor and did a little number on them with the weapon of the title. Karl, though, is more half-baked than he is half-mad, the kind of convicted murderer who Didn...
...Many of the system's 355,000 names were culled from Democratic National Committee donor lists, and they were obviously entered with follow-up in mind. Have a pet project or nickname? WhoDB knows it, along with birthdays and fax numbers. Even special dietary needs were logged in to cater to donors at future events. "If people who give money are treated with social graces and made to feel they're appreciated, they'll come right back and give the next time," said Truman Arnold, a Texas oilman who served as the D.N.C. finance chairman for most...
...noted that textbook prices are largely determined by the publishers and vary based on the edition and the audience to which they cater...
...called, make up the circuit, with pageants sponsored by the likes of Hawaiian Tropic and Beauty Unlimited held in shopping malls and hotel ballrooms. According to Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, there are about 3,000 pageants a year in the U.S., 500 of which cater to the preteen-and-under set. Children could compete every weekend, if they and their parents had the energy and resources. "There's a new pageant popping up all the time," says V. J. LaCour, publisher of Pageant Life, a Sacramento quarterly with a circulation of 60,000. "The reason...