Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Driving home from dinner two weeks ago, Senator Mark Hatfield was suddenly confronted by a reality that has become commonplace for less exalted residents of Washington. Only six blocks from the gleaming Capitol dome, the Oregon Republican watched as a man 20 yards ahead of him blasted away with a gun at another man. Hatfield zoomed through a red light to flee the scene. He did not call the police. "I assure you if in Washington you tell the police you saw somebody shooting somebody, they'd say, 'So what?' " Hatfield explained...
...issues are not that simple. While Americans have no reason to be terrified to sit down at the dinner table, they have every reason to demand significant improvements in food and water safety. They unwittingly and unwillingly ingest too much of too many dangerous chemicals. If food already contains natural carcinogens, it does not make much sense to add dozens of new man-made ones. Though most people will withstand the small amounts of contaminants generally found in food and water, at least a few individuals will probably get cancer one day because of what they eat and drink...
...final point. Every activity involving the interaction between two or more people is inherently social in nature. Every festival, every rally, every game and every dinner is a social event...
President Derek C. Bok ate dinner with residents of Stoughton North this week. He had only praise for the Union food, but the dinner was not without trauma. As he bent down to pick up a salad bowl on the floor, he bumped his tray, spilling milk all over." As is so often the case," he said, "In trying to do good in the world, I only succeeded in making things worse...
...adviser says, "They've got a major bailout operation under way right now." On Tuesday night chief of staff John Sununu, ever confident and combative, sought advice from an informal group of outsiders that he occasionally convenes: a dozen former Bush campaign officials and political consultants who gathered for dinner in the Roosevelt Room and discussed how to recover from the debacle...