Word: filets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia. The unsponsored miles will be run by 250 A T & T employees, who will also jog alongside sponsored runners. Runners will be accompanied by a four-vehicle security and ambulance escort, part of a fleet of 37 cars, vans and trailers offering everything from a whirlpool bath to filet mignon. The convoy, the cheering crowds and the challenge of running an Olympic kilometer is likely to make even the humblest torchbearer feel like a champion...
Hunger, for example. If $6 will buy a decal of a flowerpot to make a gutted tenement look cheerily affluent, it could just as well buy a decal of a large filet mignon, surrounded by heaps of buttered carrots and peas and mashed potatoes. If that seems too indulgent, perhaps simply a decal of a steaming pot of stew. That should enable quite a few families to imagine themselves well...
...businessmen should be prepared for some shockers. In Oslo, for example, a Scotch and soda runs nearly $6. A glass of beer in even a modest café is $5. In Osaka, Japan, an expatriate housewife will probably pass the supermarket meat counter once she notes the cost of filet mignon: $78.94 for a kilogram (2.2 lbs.). A white shirt in a fashion able Nairobi clothing store can sell for as much...
...estate agent Jo is a bank executive. They have been friends for years and eat at their favorite fancy restaurant down town. Oftentimes Arden brings a prospective buyer with him. Sometimes Jo brings a major depositor of her expensive dish--shrimp or lobster Rockefeller when in season; Jo, the filet mignon Jo likes the $3.95 cheesecake for dessert and usually orders it saying "I'll log it off on the way home." Because Arden rents a new Mercedes Renz cash year to drive buses around he drives to work lacks exercise and does not eat dessert because "I'd rather...
...Roth, coauthor of what he prefers to call the Roth-Kemp tax act, joked that he had invited Stockman to a Thanksgiving dinner at which the menu would include "Trojan horse pâté, Château Hemlock '81, trickle-down consommé and foot-in-mouth filet." After dinner, said Roth, Stockman would be "offered a blindfold and a cigarette." Actually, Roth was furious at Stockman's remarks about supply-side economics, saying, "I'm outraged...