Word: impromptu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...consolidators own only about 10% of America's 23,000 funeral homes, although these tend to be prime properties in key markets and account for an estimated 20% of the country's funerals. Wooing the owners often involves a good deal of soft salesmanship--chats over coffee and impromptu visits to talk about "succession planning," the industry's euphemism for transferring ownership. Loewen then flies prospects up to Vancouver, where Ray Loewen dazzles them with evening cruises and salmon barbecues. Says a former executive: "Going salmon fishing south of Alaska is a wonderful experience. And all other things being...
Last year the Democratic Party disavowed a brochure that promised contributors of $100,000 perks such as a couple of meals with President Clinton and Vice President Gore as well as "impromptu meetings" with other Administration bigwigs. Reacting to the public's outrage, party officials pledged to stop such explicit quid pro quos. At the time, party co-chair Don Fowler said, "The President is concerned about certain appearances of marketing the presidency." But some contributors say Marvin Rosen, the Democratic Party's finance chairman, has privately resumed the practice. Donors tell TIME that Rosen, a Miami lawyer, recited...
Most films, as they ravel their stories, narrow their focus to two or three central characters. The English Patient, though, expands its field of vision to embrace the impromptu communities around Almasy--notably Hana and her Sikh lover Kip (Naveen Andrews). They re-enact, with less melodrama, the arc of Almasy and Katharine's desperate affair. Almasy wants his love to flee in a plane; Kip sends Hana soaring on pulleys into the clerestory of the monastery chapel. Up there with the heavenly murals: Kip knows that's where this pensive angel belongs...
...Brightest, David L. Halberstam '55 tells a story of Bundy's time at The Grotton School. Bundy had not prepared a speech he was supposed to deliver that day, so he stood in front of the class with a blank piece of paper in his hand and gave an impromptu oration that would be remembered years later for its brilliance...
...last Wednesday's Faculty Council meeting, however, Hyman and council secretary Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 each made impromptu addresses during a question-and-answer period...