Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...workers. A fledgling stock market has 147 listings. Within three years, half of Hungary's economy is expected to be in private hands. Consumer goods are expensive, but, unlike in Poland, they are plentiful. Hungarians proudly use the phrase "like < an American movie" to describe their store shelves and dinner tables...
...awards dinner where he received an award for excellence from the London-based Sunday Times, Heaney said that the British media and government had maintained a feeling of moral superiority to the Irish...
...world. At his own black-tie benefit, Wayne wanders around without speaking to his guests, and when the gorgeous blonde photographer Vicky Vale (Kim Bassinger) asks where she can find the host, he gives her a confused look and conceals his identity. Later, when he invites Vale to dinner, they sit at opposite ends of a long table, unable to see or hear each other...
...footage from a remote-control camera concealed in the dining room of a Beijing hotel, which was aired with a voice-over implying that the students at the table had been feasting when they were supposed to be fasting. Decipherable dates on the clip showed, however, that the dinner actually took place more than a week after their hunger strike ended. But the Chinese got the point: nothing is secret...
...million flight insurance at $13 a ticket works out to about a dime in expected payouts for every dollar in premiums, leaving Amex 90 cents to cover expenses and profit. The Statue of Liberty stood to gain a penny every time you charged an $80 dinner or a $400 airline ticket to your card, leaving Amex 319 pennies in the case of the dinner (at its service charge of about 4% for restaurants) or 999 pennies in the case of the ticket (at its 2 1/2% or so on airline fares). The premium you paid for the platinum card, which...