Word: formals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Britain has lost its edge in manufacturing and rock music, it is still the world leader in ceremonies and formal occasions. Disney has the know-how to export this skill. Royal trumpeters, flag wavers, standard-bearers, etc., could be leased to governments and companies for annual meetings and other events. The royal flatware and dinnerware could be rented out for notable weddings. Speaking of nuptials, it's a shame Britain missed the pay-per-view potential of Charles and Di's. It's not too late to put together a TV deal for the divorce proceedings, but Disney...
...began today in eastern Maryland. "This is more of a courtship dance than a marriage ceremony," says TIME's Beyer. "The talks are too low level and informal to come away with any kind of breakthrough agreement. But they are still very important. Negotiations have always been icy and formal between these two countries. These talks are thawing the air, which is necessary to get to the next step." The negotiations are being mediated by American Dennis Ross, and are expected to run into the middle of next week, with time off for the weekend. Secretary of State Warren Christopher...
...basketball game, they are at the end of the bench, dressed in semi-formal attire. At a soccer game, they are filling in the scorebook or sitting atop the scaffolding, taping the game. They go unnoticed, but they are there...
...again denied coverage. The deMeurerses, committed now to getting the transplant by any means necessary, launched a two-pronged attack: they authorized Hiepler to pursue an injunction to compel Health Net to pay for the treatment: and they began fund raising in earnest. Christy's sister organized a formal dinner in Boulder, Colorado; friends and colleagues arranged a school talent show. The deMeurerses' daughter Michelle, then eight years old, took a piece of loose-leaf paper and with shaky precision wrote her own advertisement for a yard sale. The sign said, MONEY GOES TO A MOTHER WITH BREAST CANCER...
Things got still more complicated when, a few days later, on Wednesday, Sept. 22, Glaspy, at the request of Health Net's lawyers, signed a second formal declaration, this time opposing Christy's motion for an injunction. "I didn't view it as being against her," he said, in a deposition last April. "They were all truths in that declaration that I had already told Christine." And yet he knew, he said, that "this declaration could be used legally to stand between her and the transplant...