Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While senior gift fund literature emphasized the importance of any level of participation and had a minimum contribution level of just $10, it also recruited larger donors through a leadership gift committee. The committee solicited "leadership gifts" from wealthier students and offered perks, such as a New York City cocktail party, to those willing to give $250 or more...
...chicken coop is now an artist's studio, and the woodshed is an open-air sitting room. The animals are gone from the barn where Charlotte wove her web and Wilbur the pig luxuriated in his manure pile, and sometimes the Gallants lay down Persian rugs and hold a cocktail party there, or set out chairs and tables for a meeting of the local garden club, or even, once in a while, arrange bales of hay in a semicircle for a reading of Charlotte's Web to local schoolchildren. And when the kids come across the famous passage about...
Internet stocks have defied convention and gravity for the better part of two years. Never mind that to these outfits, profit is mostly a concept. They had cool products, hip clients, catchy names, irreverent ads, promise--lots of promise--and more. They had panache. They were cocktail chatter, and their stocks (and stockholders) were giddy. The money-losing online bookseller Amazon.com long ago blew past venerable Sears in terms of market value. At the time, investors gasped and marveled. They kept buying, but at least they noticed. By April, though, Amazon's worth was fast approaching that of Sears...
Austin's goofy antics appealed to youngsters who appreciate anyone who's good at behaving badly (in a PG-13 way, of course) and to grownups who wish they could. Soon after the video was released, catchphrases like "Shagadelic!" and "Oh, behave!" caught on in schoolyards and trendy cocktail lounges alike. "I can't walk past a construction site without having 'Fancy a shag?' yelled at me," says Elizabeth Hurley, who co-starred in the first film and has a cameo in the sequel. Laughs Roach: "So many women have blamed us for giving men pickup lines...
...main reward offered for a $250 gift is a cocktail party in New York City, at which the large-money donors are able to partake in schmoozing and imbibing...