Word: dom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wages are down because more households are doing without help. The hostess in Paris' well-heeled 16th arrondissement still appears in the latest Chanel outfits but has given up sit-down dinners for 40 in favor of buffets for ten and less expensive champagne (Veuve Cliquot instead of Dom Perignon). The elderly count in Provence dwells in one wing of an otherwise shuttered château he hesitates to sell because of the government's "wealth tax" of up to 2.5% on assets over...
Although the judge's ruling probably saved Pamela's life, it has again put the American legal system at odds with the Constitution's guarantee of religious free dom. State courts have routinely intervened against the antimedicine doctrines of some religious groups in or dering treatment for the chil dren of church members when death is imminent. Now states are beginning to bring charges of neglect or abuse against parents who endanger their children's lives by adhering to religious teachings...
...flights in Europe. Pan Am's remaining 28,000 employees (vs. 36,000 in 1980) were persuaded to take a 10% pay cut. Meanwhile, the airline poured $25 million into upgrading its fleet of 747s and adding other goodies to lure paying passengers: fancy wines and champagne (including Dom Perignon on some flights), caviar in first class on long hauls and better food in general. Also planned: a $20 million refurbishing of Pan Am's Worldport terminal at New York City's Kennedy Airport and $40 million for improvements at its facility at Los Angeles International...
...island off the Soviet mainland, something like capitalist Taiwan in relation to Communist China. In broad strokes Aksyonov contrasts the glittering hedonism of the islanders to the squalid austerity that prevails on the Soviet mainland. In Aksyonov's fancy, Crimea is the hog heaven of the conspicuous consumer. Dom Perignon flows like vodka in the luxury cafés and restaurants. Ferraris and Cadillacs jam the freevays on veekends. (In the original, Aksyonov used the English words transliterated into Russian.) Glass-and-steel houses cling to the island's sheer rock cliffs, in defiance of frequent earthquakes...
...Peter Dinneen (H) d. Dom Tordjman...