Word: owned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time was, when you wanted such a meal, you had to go to a fancy restaurant. No longer. In major cities from San Francisco to New Orleans to New York City, home-delivery services are springing up to rush gourmet fare from restaurants to the couch-bound affluent. In addition...
The Grand Bay Hotel in Coconut Grove, Fla., makes its own deliveries by limousine. Its dishes -- ranging from lobster to souffle -- arrive in plastic containers, although a full china service and other accessories are sent on request. The average bill for two, including tip: $100. Why are so many prepared...
"We often hear that there is just one Europe," Lech Walesa told his hosts after arriving in West Germany last week to seek financial support for Poland's own version of perestroika. "Well, I just looked out the window from the plane, and there is in fact just one Europe...
In making Bonn his first capital of call since the formation of Poland's democratically elected government, Walesa was drawing attention to a dramatic geopolitical shift: Western Europe is now the brightest beacon for East bloc countries as they emerge blinking from the long shadow of Soviet suzerainty. Walesa's...
The Brazilian government, meanwhile, came up with development schemes of its own. In the early 1970s the country built the Trans-Amazon Highway, a system of roads that run west from the coastal city of Recife toward the Peruvian border. The idea was to prompt a land rush similar to...