Word: conventioneers
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But what bothered me all those many years ago and still bothers me now is the feeling of being railroaded. I'll honor my father when I feel like honoring my father, thank you, not when some society-wide convention tells me I should. It's a little like that...
More than 5.6 million conventiongoers come to Atlanta every year, some number of them drawn in part by the city's rare combination of full nudity and alcohol, a mix of pleasure not offered in many other towns around the country. No pasties, no g-strings or t-backs. Visitors...
...dancer than a corporate employee of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Company. "Welcome to Sex City - Hope You Brought Cash" was the title of the magazine article in which an economist estimates that nudie bars generate greater economic impact than the Braves, Falcons and Hawks professional sports teams combined. "Conventioneers swarm to the Atlanta strip clubs because no matter where they live they probably don't have this honored combination of nude dancing and alcohol," says attorney Alan Begner, who represents nearly half of Atlanta's 41 strip bars. He and others estimate that 50 percent of the clubs' clientele...
Card's ties to the Republican Party and the Bush family secured him the job of running the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, which he followed up by helping then-Gov. Bush prepare for the presidential debates against Vice President Al Gore '69.
Lee's battle looked lost until the fall of 1968 when the powerful American Association of University Professors weighed in on the case. At its convention that year, the group said UH had violated Lee's academic freedom when it revoked his tenure offer.