Word: consul
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...chief, TIME Begin your evening with a cocktail at YongFoo Elite (nominally a private club, but I've never seen anyone turned away at the door), where the brocaded wallpaper, spacious garden and Art Deco lamps hint at the building's origins as the 1920s residence of the British consul general. Then meander through the French Concession's sycamore-lined streets to my favorite hole-in-the-wall eatery, Jishi, on Tianping Road. Adventurous eaters can dig their chopsticks into Jishi's signature braised fish head nestled in deep-fried scallions. Desserts and after-dinner drinks aren't the strong...
...according to Ria Convery, the communications director for the MWRA. The MWRA was specifically created to undertake the court-order cleanup effort, Convery said. The goal is to raise the water quality so that swimming is possible throughout the year, said Michael D. Wagner, assistant enforcement consul for the Environmental Protection Agency of New England, yesterday. “The river is in good shape in dry weather,” Laskey said. “The problem is after or during rainstorms.” Wagner added that the MWRA plans to reduce the CSO from 17.1 billion gallons...
...French life, no one ever seemed to have anything against Mickey Mouse." I have been involved in Franco-American relations for years and have never seen French and Americans, from tourists to government officials, from cultural leaders to businessmen, so much on the same wavelength. Edmund van Gilder Consul General of the U.S. Marseilles...
...work by Moscow, for it meant that neither Iceland's President nor Prime Minister could be there to greet the Soviet leader. He and his wife Raisa were met instead by Foreign Minister Matthias Matthiesen. "We told Moscow about the opening of the parliament," lamented a Soviet embassy vice-consul, "but they decided it was too late to change plans...
...processing companies are hubs for millions of payment records. It is the juiciest target for an individual who wants account numbers. It is a honeypot for identity thieves." CHRIS HOOFNAGLE, senior consul for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., on a security breach at a credit-card payment-processing company in Arizona. More than 40 million accounts may have been exposed to fraud...