Word: guests
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...value of a piece of Quebec real estate triple in eleven days. A fortnight ago several Quebec Conservatives were implicated in an influence-peddling case involving government contracts. A seventh Cabinet member, Minister of State Roch LaSalle, resigned last week after it was revealed that he had been the guest of honor at a dinner at which guests paid $5,000 apiece for the privilege of meeting him. And Mulroney has been accused of violating his own guidelines for avoiding conflict of interest by complaining about a lawsuit against one of his advisers in a call to his lawyer...
Speaking as a guest of the Harvard Dyslexia Awareness Group before an audience of 40, Schwartz focused on strategies for overcoming the academic and social problems associated with dyslexia...
Three a.m. Saturday morning, the Dinosaur beckoned me into the smoky lair he had made his home. The T.V. flickered through the smoke, a swirling mixture of carcinogens and radioactivity that played flatteringly over my host-guest's chain scarred face...
...afternoon Moses and his guest came to the Morijo Loita Primary School, a windswept arrangement of tin-roofed buildings on a bare hillside a few miles from Moses' boma. Several dozen schoolchildren were gathered in a classroom of the sort that made one think of the places where Abraham Lincoln went to school on the Indiana frontier. The children sat in rows at long crude benches. They were asked about their encounters with the wild animals, in reality and in dreams. A boy named Seketo told of being chased by a lion once while he was herding cows...
Corporate sponsors and celebrities have been slow to jump on the bandwagon. Former President Gerald Ford is still considering an offer to be the guest of honor, and the Supreme Court rejected the idea of holding a session in Philadelphia during the celebration. To date, television network coverage of the eight-to-ten hours of Philadelphia festivities is still being negotiated. But the planners are certain their program will sell. "It's no different from the Super Bowl or the Olympics," says Richard Rovsek, the committee's national marketing director...