Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they have for a decade, the international wealthy favor New York City for its comparative safety and social sass. Opulent European boutiques like Celine for French fashions, $1 million-plus apartments like those in the new Museum Tower, and luxury hotels like the Plaza Athenee, which are run for, and often by, the newcomers, continue to blossom in Manhattan. Owners of New York's most fashionable restaurants say that the arrives are influencing American dining habits with their Continental nonchalance. They give a cursory glance at the bottom line on the bill, and seldom practice power lunching and power tripping...
...worked as a waitress to pay her way. After earning a master's from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1957, she worked as a reporter in Burlington, Vt., for the Free Press. She married and while rearing four children got interested in politics. Kunin started by lobbying in favor of Medicare and went on to serve three terms in the Vermont house of representatives and two terms as Lieutenant Governor before being elected Governor on her second try in 1984. "My mother lived the American dream for her children. My political views, my whole inspiration to be in politics...
...this spring submitted testimony during the debates in the state legislature and last week wrote a letter to The Boston Globe in favor of the measure, said Harvard has a vital interest in guaranteeing the financial stability of Boston because he said Harvard workers, faculty, and students depend on the way Boston appears and operates...
Nicholson stars as Charlie Partanna, a stereotypical middle-aged. Italian man who has the habit of slipping a ten-dollar bill into the hands of anybody doing him a favor (he even tells a maid over the phone that he will send her ten bucks for all her trouble...
Buchanan cleared his attack ahead of time with White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. As a former aide to Richard Nixon, though, he should have realized that he was doing Cuomo the same sort of favor that President Lyndon B. Johnson inadvertently did for Nixon. In 1966 the former Republican Vice President was gadding about (with Aides Pat Buchanan and William Safire in tow) trying desperately to get some national attention, when one day he had the good luck to say something about Viet Nam that angered L.B.J. Johnson lashed out at Nixon as a "chronic campaigner" who "never...