Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard University, the largest real estate owner in Cambridge, is considering the purchase of an acre of property near Harvard Square from Radcliffe College...
...1960s, Petrus was introduced to American wine lovers by the late Henri Soule, owner of the tony Le Pavillon restaurant in New York. Explains Alexis Lichine, author of A Guide to the Wines and Vineyards of France: "It was served at Le Pavillon in the days when Onassis sat at a corner table. After that, Chateau Petrus became a status symbol, the sort of name dropped by people who wish to imply not only that they know wine but that they are in wine...
...solution cannot come too soon for the Hotel de l'Abbaye's owner, Jean Tiffenat, who also went to court last week, demanding that the Haitians be evicted. Since the Duvaliers' arrival Feb. 7, he has been forced to turn away guests with long-standing reservations. "They asked me if I could lodge a head of state, and of course I accepted," sniffed Tiffenat. "But I didn't know it would be Baby Doc. In the future, I'll be more careful...
...York and Chicago, Burnett was monitored by the FBI on a 24-hour basis. He continued trying, unsuccessfully, to win a contract for S.R.S. to collect payment on $300 million worth of Chicago parking tickets, a process that involved alleged payoffs to four aldermen and a city administrator. S.R.S. Owner Bernard Sandow boasted to Burnett that the company had also bribed important New York City officials. The FBI was listening in: Sandow's bragging may have resulted in last week's indictment against Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former New York parking-violations-bureau official accused of extorting some $313,000 from...
...after, Manes' associate, Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former official in the city's parking- violations bureau, was accused of extorting $410,000 in cash, trips and theater seats from agencies that had been granted plump city contracts to collect unpaid parking-ticket fines. Queens Attorney Michael Dowd, a collection-agency owner, is reported to have told federal prosecutors that it was Manes who ordered him to pay bribes to Lindenauer to safeguard a lucrative city contract that had netted his firm some $2 million...