Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carte main courses at $8.25 that evoked gasps from customers. Nor was its success instantaneous. In a review written one month after Lutece opened, Craig Claiborne, then the restaurant critic for the New York Times, allowed that two dishes -- foie gras baked in a brioche loaf and roast veal stuffed with truffled kidneys -- were superb, but, he summarized, "the food at Lutece could not be called great cuisine...
...many consumers, buying flowers is no more of an extravagance than buying a loaf of bread. John Culbreth, who works in Atlanta's bureau of recreation, picks up some fresh-cut varieties while he does his shopping at the DeKalb County farmers' market. Says he: "I don't know the names of what I'm buying. I just know how they look." People are buying flowers to decorate their homes, brighten up their offices or cheer up pals. Michael Goldberg, a Chicago financial analyst, sent flowers to a college friend who had failed a test...
Most conservatives absolve Reagan of responsibility for such lapses--but not all. Says Phillips: "As a ceremonial leader he gets an A, but he gets no A for his performance as chief of Government." Others regard the half-a-loaf outcome as natural. Reagan and his men, says the President's onetime campaign manager John Sears, "found out that governing was more complicated than they thought...
Rocky Mountain Blues--as in blue books--is a good way to describe the past weekend for the Harvard men's and women's ski teams, which competed at the Sugar Loaf Carnival...
...were only able to send eight skiiers out of 24," Coach George Weir said. "It's the worst situation we've been in." Harvard did not place anyone during the first or second day of competition at Sugar Loaf...