Word: patronizers
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...also had a boisterous, abrasive, decidedly chauvinistic tone. Out in the desert, many among the nearly one-quarter of a million people who had gathered to welcome the shuttle home sported T shirts emblazoned EAT YOUR HEARTS OUT, RUSSIANS. In a New York bar, after watching the landing, a patron boasted: "The French and the Brits can't do anything like that. Neither can the Russkis...
Nader says monopolies and government service should be required to send out questionnaires asking consumers for advice on how to improve service. "I have tried to push the Post Office, for example, to agree to send a yearly questionnaire to each postal patron asking. 'Do you want to help improve postal service?' You've got a hundred million patrons. If you get half of one per cent, you've get 500,000 people. I mean you've got zero now: there's no group in America. The only person who would work full time on the postal service from...
During the transition period, Allen was given high marks for smoothly handling the swirl of diverse viewpoints and personalities. Since the Inauguration, complaints have risen again. Some White House colleagues feel he has not assembled his NSC staff swiftly or skillfully enough. Like his patron Meese, he seems to lack an eye for detail. Allen's ego may be smaller than Haig's, but not by much. Ambitious and restless, he may eventually claim more of the deck than he does at present, but he will probably move too adroitly to inspire mutiny...
...capped a five-year legal battle that began when the Enquirer claimed that Burnett had been "boisterous" at a Washington, D.C., restaurant called the Rive Gauche. The gossipy weekly reported that she "had a loud argument with another diner, Henry Kissinger," spilled a glass of wine on a second patron, then tried to share her chocolate souffle with everyone in the place. Burnett did not deny that she dined at the restaurant that night, spoke to Kissinger and had "two, maybe three" glasses of wine. But, she testified, "They portrayed me as drunk." The Enquirer maintained that its information came...
...more pragmatic government leaders. In Deng's controlled press, articles indirectly accused Hua of blocking the dismissal of venal provincial officials, opposing economic reforms and acting like an old-style palace eunuch who rose to power by toadying to the Emperor-in this case, Hua's onetime patron...