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...every day--or even every year--that city councilors get to dine at Harvard's official President's residence (17 Quincy St), but in what was admittedly an effort to case perennial town-gown tensions. President Bok and several University administrators hosted Cambridge's nine city councilors and school superintendent last Wednesday night...
...SATURDAY night in the suburbs, Mickey and Ray dine at an elegant restaurant to celebrate their wedding anniversary. "Six years," the parking valet says in disbelief, "no one stays married that long." But it was not fair in Yuppiedom. While they sup, a young man in a dark van pulls up in front of their house on San Francisco Bay, deftly enters, and makes off with a horde of booty which includes a mysterious padlocked...
Many failed efforts are simply misunderstood by consumers. When Heublein put its Wine and Dine dinners on sale in the mid-1970s (price: $1.35), buyers thought they were getting a macaroni dinner along with some wine to sip. The wine was actually a salty liquid intended for use in cooking the noodles. Trading on its success with infants, Gerber tried to market such grownup fare as beef burgundy and Mediterranean vegetables. The company's mistake was to put the food in containers that looked like baby-food jars. Gerber compounded its problem by labeling the product SINGLES. Later research...
...addition to government leaders, opposition figures are invited to dine. Shimon Peres visited 3 two years ago as leader of Israel's Labor opposition. This week he is scheduled to return as his country's Prime Minister. El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte has visited, and so has Salvadoran Rebel Spokesman Ruben Zamora...
Help is on the way in the form of a new book, Power Lunching: How You Can Profit from More Effective Business Lunch Strategy. Written by E. Melvin Pinsel, 57, and Ligita Dienhart, 39, the book purports to instruct readers on effective business-dining strategy. In the spirit of "you are what you order," the authors divide food into two categories: power and wimp. The executive who wants to seal the deal should stick to power foods. These include London broil, bourbon and Brie cheese. Such foods are easy to eat and macho (the book applies the term to both...