Word: limo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked. The easy explanation is that when it turned out the limo driver was drunk, the public's anger at the press declined. Yes, but the anger could then just have dissipated. The tabloids were not about to let that happen. Sensing a turn in public mood, they fed and amplified it mercilessly--and with such success that by the end of the week, on the eve of Diana's funeral, the mob roared and the Queen caved...
...Beijing the talks were down to the wire. In the balance: billions of dollars in the textile and apparel trade between the U.S. and China. Chief U.S. negotiator Rita Hayes climbed into a Chinese limo for a key meeting last January and was joined for a 20-minute ride by Stephen Lau, a Hong Kong textile tycoon and self-described adviser to the Chinese...
...Meanwhile, one of Henri Paul's colleagues at the Ritz ? speaking on French radio with his voice disguised ? claimed that the driver lacked a limo license required in France to chauffeur passengers. The Al Fayeds quickly denied that accusation...
...attorney for the Al Fayed family ? owners of the Ritz hotel that employed the allegedly drunken, speeding limo driver Henri Paul ? is threatening to sue photographers for damages. The lawyer, Bernard Dartevelle, launched the latest volley in his media offensive by stressing that a witness reported seeing a motorcycle zigzagging in front of the Mercedes in an apparent bid to try to slow it down, just before the crash. One of the attorneys representing paparazzi under investigation for manslaughter counters that the photographers are being targeted as "sacrificial lambs" in a prime-time case of "showbiz justice" aimed at pleasing...
...youth and back again (requiring split-second makeup applications) or dream up odd location scenes. Coe's own script, This Time Next Year, called for the ghost of Ulysses S. Grant to materialize at Grant's Tomb. The actor playing Grant was to jump into an NBC limo and get uptown in time for the "remote." But there was no limo. So the actor hailed a cab and, in full Grant regalia, ordered, "Take me to Grant's Tomb...