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...culinary glory. Despite a $100-a-person average check for dinner, and a $50 counterpart at lunch, reservations for one of the 29 tables must be made one month in advance to the day. By 9:30 each morning all tables are booked for the corresponding date four weeks away. An average of 1,500 requests for seats are refused daily. Soltner's skill in preparing the mix of French dishes Lutece is known for has won him every major award accorded to chefs in his native France, as well as top ratings from virtually every food critic and restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: America's Best French Restaurant | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...cutthroat world of film societies--where groups must struggle to break even at the end of the year--which weekend a film society draws can make a big difference. "The secret is a good film date," says John B. Mathers, who coordinates weekend use of Science Center lecture halls. "Yale Weekend is not a good weekend...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: House Film Societies: Mini Moguls of Movie Industry | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

Botha also made a new offer of statehood for Namibia, proposing an August 1 target date for starting moves toward the territory's independence. He made it conditional on a withdrawal of Cuban troops from neighboring Angola...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Africa to Lift State of Emergency | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

Stephen D. Immerman, the MIT official whosupervises student use of MIT facilities, saidpermission was denied because the activist groupwould not agree to meet MIT's safety standards.The standards would prohibit the protesters fromsleeping in the shanties and require them to set adefinite date for the shanties' destruction,Immerman said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protesters Build Shantytown at MIT Calling on Governing Body to Divest | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

...written in language designed to make it difficult to identify the real beneficiaries. One transition rule, for instance, waives the cutbacks on investment tax credits and depreciation for the fiber-optic networks of telecommunications companies that have committed a certain number of dollars for construction by a certain date. It turns out that just two companies profit from the exemption: AT&T and United Telecom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peddling Influence | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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