Word: fared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devoted a $2 million fund solely to cementing the Olympic image by staging additional world-class sporting events--world speed-skating championships, European bobsled championships and the like--in hopes of attracting the fans and tourists who follow them. So far, the strategy is working. With round-trip air fare from New York and seven days in a hotel at the foot of Olympic ski runs costing just $680, the tourists are coming...
...above for more than three enthusiastic hours, then took her to his home for thick, black coffee with his family. On returning to the press village, he refused payment. At the end of a visit this year, another taxi pulled up to the modern Butmir Airport entrance, where the fare was paid. Gratefully a tip was offered, but the driver declined it. "Is O.K., is enough," he said in English, with a huge smile. "Come back." Sultanovic was right. Nothing has changed inside...
...possibly the shortest Golden Age on record. Between late 1980 and mid- 1982, four cable networks offering cultural and other highbrow programming sprang into existence. A fifth was being contemplated by the Public Broadcasting Service. For opera fans, ballet lovers and others bored with traditional network fare, the future seemed dazzling...
...special arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corp. These BBC programs run the gamut from classy mini-series (Jane Eyre) to music specials (An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber) and sitcoms (The Fainthearted Feminist with Lynn Redgrave). The schedule is also filled with concerts, operas, ballets and other fine-arts fare. But the network's executives admit that they are trying to attract new viewers with shows of broader appeal. "We have a very straightforward mission," says A&E President Nickolas Davatzes, "to provide what we think is quality and thought-provoking entertainment...
After all the fare and heated discussion of the past months, linkage proposal which would require developers in Cambridge to provide low-and moderate-income housing died a quiet death yesterday at midnight...