Word: del
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agustin del Sur and Catia, poor neighborhoods on the west side of the capital, the police "received a beating," a police commissioner said...
...customers walk out of Del Frisco's Steak House in New Orleans without leaving a tip, none of the waiters even raise an eyebrow. Nor do they at Cafe Provencal in Evanston, Ill., or Michael's in Santa Monica, Calif. Tipping is no longer expected at these establishments, but that does not mean the service is free. They are among a small but growing number of U.S. restaurants that are replacing the tipping system with a service charge, typically...
...system, waiters receive a minimum of $2.01 an hour plus their individual gratuities. A service charge, by contrast, is collected as | part of restaurant revenue and is then paid out to waiters on an hourly basis or under an incentive plan based on how much food they sell. At Del Frisco's in New Orleans, waiters receive $8 an hour or 10% of weekly total sales, whichever is greater...
...Orange Free State three years ago, she was hailed by millions of her fellow South Africans as the Mother of the Nation. Idolized by the township's teenagers, she was carried on their shoulders into political funerals and was constantly surrounded on the streets by dancing youngsters chanting "Man-del-a, Man-del-a." To much of the outside world she became the grande dame of the South African revolution, a worthy surrogate for her husband Nelson, the imprisoned black nationalist leader. But Winnie, 52, was a strong, willful person who said and did what she liked. She stirred resentment...
...meetings were called as a midterm review of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, launched in the beach resort of Punta del Este two years ago. The purpose of the Montreal gathering, held under the auspices of the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: to establish guidelines for furthering free trade. Instead, last week's GATT meetings, involving delegates from 103 nations, were dominated by an inconclusive and bitter row between the U.S. and the European Community. The chief issue was an American demand that all nations agree to the total elimination of subsidies to farmers, which...