Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current boom in neon brings its history full circle. Although the process of passing an electric charge through a gas such as neon or argon inside a sealed glass tube had been known for some time, it became commercially viable in 1910, when a French inventor named Georges Claude developed a long-life electrode. One early practical application: a giant white Cinzano sign over the chimneys of Paris. After being introduced into the U.S. in 1923, neon flourished for nearly two decades, especially as an accent for fantasies: movie houses, cocktail lounges, casinos. In the 1950s, when television took visual...
Nevertheless, the imposition of stricter limits on business entertainment deductions would almost certainly have an effect on corporate folkways. No longer would executives be able to sit down to three-star French fare without thinking of the bottom line. Charles Clotfelter, a professor of economics at Duke University, anticipates that the result will be a healthy dose of moderation. "It's still important for businesses to entertain," he says. "It always has been. But I expect to see entertaining on a much less grandiose scale." So, presumably, does Ronald Reagan...
President Bok this morning was scheduled to confer honorary degrees on nine men and a woman, including renowned psychologist B.F. Skinner and Nobel Laureate Andre Lwoff, the French biologist...
Lwoff, who was active in the French underground during World War II, after the war became a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honor and received a Medal of the Resistance...
...truckers are lining up for seconds at the breakfast buffet (all you can eat for $3.99 -- biscuits with chipped-beef gravy, fruit cup, French toast with syrup, bacon, pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, doughnuts, Danish, cereal in little boxes...