Word: lunching
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...Kevin Plintz, a Canadian geophysicist who owns Terra Seis. That wasn't too surprising in Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn to a slick black film in the gnawing winter cold. Sitting cross-legged on his living-room carpet over a lunch of mutton, village chief Tahir Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday create wealth for us." The locals were unimpressed. "All we knew was that the sheep and cows kept...
...Jintao to the U.S., Beijing was offered what, to other leaders, might seem tantalizing: the intimacy of a visit to the Bush ranch or Camp David. But the Chinese wanted the pomp of a formal White House welcome. And so they will get it--but with a "social lunch," not the state dinner they had desired. "We haven't had many state dinners," a White House official says, "and we think everything we do is special." Still, in the careful dance of diplomacy, such signals matter. The U.S. has an "aspiration to improve relations," says Michael Green, former National Security...
More recently Fernández has been pitching his island as a site for movie productions. He hired a Florida firm to act as the country's national film commission, and he had Robert De Niro over for lunch at the Presidential Palace...
...Lunch for Gromyko. Like many another working couple in their realm, Elizabeth and Philip begin their day by listening to the 8 o'clock BBC newscast. Half an hour later, they discuss it over a breakfast of tea, toast and kippers,'and soon they are lost in a cloud of newspapers. Elizabeth pores through three papers each morning, not overlooking the sports pages, and like most women, she shudders slightly when she sees her own picture. Newspictures have seldom done her justice...
...church must be interested and informed. It may be a visiting Governor General from one of the Commonwealth nations, come for luncheon with his lady. Gourmet or no, the guest must face the fact that Elizabeth the Queen likes short meals and plain, wholesome British fare. After lunch (maximum: an hour and a quarter) come the public appearances-a ship to be launched, a hospital to be visited, an exhibition to be opened, a cornerstone to be laid-always accompanied with a gracious, impromptu and neat little speech...