Word: loyal
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...thinking of opening a restaurant, what they’re talking about is that their sales are down from 20 to 50 percent.” He said that the biggest casualty has been high-end restaurants, particularly ones that opened recently and have not had time to develop loyal customer bases.Small Plates’ opening coincided with the beginning of the recession in late 2007, unfortunate timing that the tapas restaurant has been recovering from.“[Reservations] did go down definitely in the fall,” Picca said, adding that they have “picked...
...Lowy possessed the impressive ability to command his instrument to tell the story. From the beginning, his melodies were wandering and melancholy, impelling the listener to follow every turn.HRO Music Director Dr. James Yannatos again showed his gift for conducting concertos; the swaying strings settled delicately under the clarinet, loyal to Lowy’s nuances. After an extended solo, Lowy moved into the playful second part of the concerto, trading arpeggios with the twinkling piano and strings. The piece finished with jazzy pandemonium, as the dialogue between Lowy and the orchestra surged to a loud, clean conclusion...
...majesté laws have been used to charge or jail several people, including an academic and a foreigner. What is your opinion of what has happened? The laws have been there for many years. It was not that serious until now. They use the words 'loyal' or 'not loyal' to the monarchy as a tool to fight for power. That is bad for the monarchy and it's bad for Thailand. We should not allow this to happen. The law's intention is just to protect the monarchy. But now it's used to manipulate power. We have to redefine...
...Will an election heal the country? The longer that you leave it like this, the more divisions there will be. They have to settle it quickly, especially if they are sincerely loyal to the King. The word "loyalty" has been used as an excuse to acquire power. We have to ask those who are behind the divisiveness to stop meddling into the system. When I was in power, there was a meeting in one house on Sukhumvit [Road in Bangkok] and one of the attendees revealed to me--and I have the tapes of what happened--that the meeting...
Indeed, Raúl, who until succeeding Fidel was Cuba's Defense Minister for almost five decades, placed numerous military brass loyal to him in key posts. They included General Jose Amado Ricardo Guerra as Secretary of the Council of Ministers, who replaces Carlos Lage, 57, a physician turned economics czar who is widely credited with seeing Cuba through the financially harrowing 1990s after the island lost its massive Soviet subsidies. Lage was often mentioned as a possible successor to Fidel...