Word: dining
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...including TRW, Intel and Playtex, operate manufacturing plants to take advantage of low wage rates. A hotel room with breakfast there is a stunning $155.36. The world's least expensive city this year, as last, is Peking. A capitalist looking for a share of the China trade can dine on Peking duck for $17.77 and rest his head for a mere $29.88 a night...
Affluent parents of Boston and thereabouts know the town for the Putney School. It has tutored children of the famous, including some Kennedys. The area holds other well-known people, including retired Senator George Aiken, former Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Painter Jim Dine. Ted Williams is said to visit an ex-wife occasionally in these parts...
...somewhat abstract intensity of a man on a perpetual hunt for the perfect specimen. Lullingstone provided the silk for Lady Diana's wedding dress. Nestled in the rolling hills of Dorset, hard by Gooden's mansion, it is the only silk farm in England. Its worms, which dine on mulberry leaves, have provided silk for the wedding dress of Queen Elizabeth and for the cloak Charles wore when he was invested as Prince of Wales. Started by Lady Hart Dyke in the 1930s with encouragement from Queen Mary, Lullingstone almost went under when its founder died...
Caliguiri's style is to try for conciliation rather than confrontation. On his first day in office, he skipped an important Democratic rally to dine at the bluebloods' Duquesne Club with members of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. The conference, which included the heads of Gulf, U.S. Steel and other corporations, had been largely responsible for the "Renaissance" of the late '40s and '50s that rebuilt the downtown Golden Triangle. At that dinner, Caliguiri spoke about his desire to re-establish good relations between business and city hall...
Though he does not enjoy the Paris cocktail-party circuit, Mitterrand likes to dine with such old Socialist comrades as Claude Estier, Louis Mermaz and Pierre Joxe. Other close friends include a businessman from his native region and the owner of a taxi fleet. He is seen from time to time in Left Bank restaurants with one or another of the attractive young women whose company he enjoys. But he is also a family man who spends most weekends with his wife, visiting friends or staying in his converted sheep barn in southwestern France...