Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worldwide petroleum glut that has put intense downward pressure on prices. Their main goal: to reach agreement on production quotas that would keep the cost of crude at $34 per bbl., the "official" level for the past 16 months. Suddenly, the ballroom door burst open and out strode the dapper, but obviously weary Saudi Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani. As cameras flashed and video recorders whirred, OPEC's most powerful leader curtly announced: "The meeting has ended. There has been complete failure...
Hoffa was presumably murdered in 1975, when he disappeared without a trace. But Hoffa's successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, continued to allow Dorfman to control the union's pension fund, and Dorfman prospered in the murky, billion-dollar swamp of Teamsters loans and land deals. A dapper dresser fond of a round of golf and the company of old cronies, he lived with his wife Lynn in a $750,000 home in the Chicago suburb of Riverwoods...
Watching her final rehearsal is Roberto Riva, Cornelia's boyfriend of a year. Riva, 42, is a dapper real estate speculator whose Italian parents raised him in Peru. I think she is great, fantastic," Riva says, snapping photo after photo of Cornelia in her silver jacket and leather pants. 'Very fantastic. We have a vanguard, you enow...
...Harvard men of the 1880s who wanted to look dapper for their home town sweethearts, an Ulster Coat imported from London was de rigeur at $12.00. Those of robust constitutions travelling short distances could opt to dash home through the snow in a one-horse open sleigh rented from Blake, Hack, and Livery Stable complete with lap robe and whip...
...both bride and groom share the cost of weddings, and they pay dearly. They will lay out $17 billion this year for knot-tying festivities, an astonishing $22,000 per couple, six times the price of the average U.S. ceremony. Posters in Tokyo subways, featuring dainty brides and dapper grooms, offer such cut-rate packages as the "Shining Love" ceremony ($2,500), performed in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's luxe hotels. At the top of the line, however, was the recent marriage of Chiyonofuji, a Grand Champion sumo wrestler. Price: $580,000. His bride...