Word: meals
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...state landslide. Four years later Jimmy Carter railed at a tax system he called a "disgrace to the human race." Among other things, he cemented the three-martini lunch in American folklore. (By making only 80% of business entertainment deductible, the new bill in effect transforms that fabled meal into a 2.4-martini lunch.) As President, though, Carter never got around to proposing any comprehensive reform. While his tax advisers urged simplification and loophole closing, his energy specialists succeeded in enacting special breaks for energy conservation and development of synthetic fuels...
Nobody has ever become a frequent flyer by booking a seat on GPA. For that matter, no passenger has ever eaten a meal served by a GPA flight attendant or checked a bag with the company. Yet Shannon, Ireland-based GPA, formerly known as Guinness Peat Aviation, owns one of the world's largest commercial passenger jet fleets. Instead of flying its planes, which will soon number 187, GPA leases them to some 25 airlines, including Pan American, Qantas and People Express. For cash-strapped carriers, renting a Boeing 737, even at $240,000 a month, is often more affordable...
...Burmese monks are supposed to lead a very ascetic life, one meal a day and only six belongings and lots of chanting and of course celibacy, but they didn't act much like it. At any one time, three or four of the monks would seat themselves in a circle around me and just stare. The trip was quite pleasant; off the boat you could see pagodas in the middle of nowhere, clusters of thatched huts on stilts, and old-fashioned fishing boats. The only thing was that the monks insisted on smoking cheroots while keeping the windows closed...
...model for Ba-Ba-Reeba! and for many other U.S. outposts is the Ballroom, New York City's best tapas tavern and one of the first in the country. The chef and co-owner, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, is a virtuoso of the meal-in- miniature. To the standard array of morsels, he adds innovations such as chicken in curry, headcheese in a satiny pimiento puree, slivers of crackling crisp roast pig and seviche of scallops. Rojas-Lombardi has his three tapas cooks prepare 25 choices each day, and his menu also lists eight or ten conventional main courses, both Spanish...
...annual expenditures. Using the computer and modem in his office in Concord, he can punch in his name and secret password, log on to the state's IBM 4361 mainframe computer, and get a quick reading, in glowing green digits, of the state's financial health: room-and-meal tax returns ($30.3 million as of last November); business profits taxes ($28.4 million); out-of-town travel expenses for the leaders of the legislature ($300). "It is my conviction that one needs to go down to the lowest source to get intimate, unbiased data," says Sununu, glancing at the screen...