Word: furnishes
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...chauffeur but also sold off the archbishop's mansion and moved into a three-room rectory apartment. He also wrote a regular column on church and social issues for the diocesan weekly, then published letters disputing his views. A highly skilled administrator, Bernardin established a pastoral council to furnish him with ideas and advice. He set up $1 million in two funds to keep inner-city schools running and this year started a program to aid the unemployed. His annual financial reports included an accounting of his own $100,000 discretionary fund. Says the new archbishop: "The church...
...Nova-Park Elysées, which sits on the site of the century-old Paris-Match building and retains its façades, cost about $45 million to furbish and furnish. It is largely the inspiration of René E. Hatt, 55, a beefy Swiss developer known to the hotel's 280 employees as Le Big Boss. Hatt, whose Nova-Park chain owns Switzerland's biggest hotel, in Zurich, also has hotels in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia and Cairo. This fall the chain will open its first U.S. hotel, in New York City; it will occupy the Gotham...
...move would have increased unemployment. So it was shelved. Mitterrand wanted to impose new corporate taxes and raise social security contributions, but a jarring 10% drop in business investment last year forced the government to postpone $1.8 billion in new levies. Internationally, after signing an agreement to furnish Nicaragua's Sandinista regime with $90 million in defensive arms and after sounding off in favor of El Salvador's guerrillas, Mitterrand and his colleagues talked with the two countries' neighbors-and the U.S. France is now quietly backing off from its initial stance. A once bruited second arms...
...washing. There are almost no live-in servants in any of the houses. Even $2 million "cottages" are as nearly maintenance-free as possible. Most new arrivals expect to walk into a readymade environment, with none of the bother of planning or decorating. Some builders, like Stephen Chefan, 52, furnish the houses down to the last table cloth and teaspoon, fill the bookshelves and stock the bar. Architecturally, the dwellings are a kind of California contemporary. Most come with pools, Jacuzzi rooms, electronic security systems and multimedia entertainment rooms. Says Albert Segal, who moved to the Gold Coast from Charlotte...
...seem a maudlin rendition of a self-inflicted denouement that was entirely justified. I was too close to events to see it that way. That night of Aug. 7,1 was nearly shattered by the human tragedy of the President seeking a solace beyond anybody's capacity to furnish...