Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd both at home and on the road. In the U.S. a conductor must also subject himself (there are no women on the short list) to endless rounds of glad-handing and fund raising, while in Berlin he must have the political skills of a Franz von Papen to deal with a fractious orchestra and a powerful city bureaucracy...
...generation, golf meant Bob Hope and his U.S.O. tours, neatly pressed clothes, graying hair trimmed high around the ears and cut well above the collar. Country-club golf was a symbol of everything the young held in contempt, a bastion, perhaps the last, of the back-slapping big business deal. Golf was something for Dad, but not for the new generation...
...Washington's game plan remains vague. The Administration has pledged that no deal will be cut with Noriega to quash the drug indictments. And a high-level official says that a fraudulent election will prompt the U.S. to consider new "diplomatic, intelligence and military" options, the first time the Bush team has suggested an armed intervention...
...when I was 16. That was a big one. Some lady had the sun in her eyes and ran her car into me. The hood ornament rammed into my head. I had days of semiconsciousness, an out-of-body experience. I saw the tunnel, the light, the whole deal...
...teaching restaurants are a good deal for both schools and patrons. Proceeds from the dining room of little Dumas Pere culinary school in Glenview, Ill., a Chicago suburb, help underwrite tuition costs for the 14 students. "The course value is $28,000," says school director Juan Snowden. "But the dining room profit helps knock almost $20,000 off that." Mark Erickson, the director of culinary education at C.I.A., speaks for many food educators, though, when he says, "We're more interested in students' getting good training in the restaurants than in making a good profit...