Word: luncheon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britons had asked to be served typical California food onshore. That explains, for instance, the ultrahip luncheon salad planned at the Los Angeles Music Center: red lettuce leaves crammed with pieces of pink grape fruit, strawberries, avocado and exquisite Enoki mushrooms. Explained Caterer Nicole Cottrell: "We couldn't serve a tiny bird because it could shoot across her plate...
...concentrated on each of the Democrats' traditional constituencies: organized labor, blacks, Jews, blue-collar workers, women and teachers. He appealed to many of them last week in thoroughly Democratic Chicago. "This Administration's position on women is as wrong as it can possibly be," he told a luncheon of professional women. To a group of senior citizens in a Jewish neighborhood, he praised Israel for its handling of the inquiry into the massacre of Palestinians in Lebanon ("I say God bless Israel for her example") and criticized Reagan's approach to Social Security reform as "unfair...
...House subcommittees looking into her management of the agency's hazardous-waste program. In another bizarre twist, she sent her appointment calendars, which she had resisted giving to the House subcommittees that had subpoenaed them, to a Senate committee that had never requested them. The calendars, listing numerous luncheon and dinner dates with representatives of chemical companies she regulated but very few with environmental lobbyists, buttressed charges that she had a business bias. By letting the representatives pay for her meals, Lavelle may have violated agency regulations, according...
Some gems from Thursday's pre-Beanpot luncheon at the Garden...
...Although the blast from 1,000 Ibs. of TNT would probably have only scarred the marble face of the monument, it could have sent out a concussive wave creating an arc of destruction from the White House to the Potomac. Seven nearby museums were evacuated, and a White House luncheon given by President Reagan was moved out of the room facing the monument...