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...agent Jo is a bank executive. They have been friends for years and eat at their favorite fancy restaurant down town. Oftentimes Arden brings a prospective buyer with him. Sometimes Jo brings a major depositor of her expensive dish--shrimp or lobster Rockefeller when in season; Jo, the filet mignon Jo likes the $3.95 cheesecake for dessert and usually orders it saying "I'll log it off on the way home." Because Arden rents a new Mercedes Renz cash year to drive buses around he drives to work lacks exercise and does not eat dessert because "I'd rather just...

Author: By M. CHARLES Mason, | Title: No More Free Lunches | 3/18/1982 | See Source »

Lunch at 1 p.m. in the White House second-floor dining room is a wooing session with representatives of 20 Hispanic organizations. As usual, Reagan dines with gusto: a rich shellfish soup, filet mignon, artichoke salad, California red wine and fruit compote. He assures his guests that five Hispanic appointments to the sub-Cabinet are "in the pipeline." By 2:15 p.m. he is back at his desk, making phone calls and signing papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life of the New President: Ronald Reagan | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...sensitive elevator buttons, expensive coffee shops and a heated pool enclosed by a transparent glass bubble which hotel officials can open up, observatory style, when the sun begins to turn the people inside into ants under a magnifying glass. After a leisurely afternoon backfloating, guests can dine on filet mignon at poolside...

Author: By Mark R. Anspach and James G. Hershberg, S | Title: Setting an Agenda for the '80s | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...Seattle. There, on the floor of the world's most spacious building (200 million cu. ft.), are eleven Boeing 747s in various stages of construction. After dinner with executives of five firms that do business with China (Dungeness crabs, oysters, and at Teng's request filet mignon) and a night's rest, Teng and his party would board their 707 for the return to the Middle Kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teng's Triumphant Tour | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...stacked blonde at a construction site with a group of men around her while she read blueprints to them. I noted her shoes were coordinated with her Gucci yellow hard hat. The second picture showed her in a pair of flowing pajamas standing over the stove stirring her filet-mignon helper (recipe on page 36) while her husband tossed the salad and her children lovingly set the table. It made me want to spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: She-Wits and Funny Persons | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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