Word: patronizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoker," insists Ronnie Fondell, puffing away at an outdoor table at Caffe Roma, a lively bistro where sleek Europeans come to meet and gawk. "Why not take cars off the street, booze off the bar and prohibit anything else anyone ever said was bad for you," grumbles a patron at the Grill, popular with the business-lunch crowd...
More rebellious customers have taken action. At Larry Parker's pricey 24- Hour Diner one recent afternoon, an annoyed patron yanked a woman's hair as he walked out because she refused to put out her cigarette. At Cafe Beverly Hills, an upscale coffee shop, an elderly man punched his female companion when she told him he must snuff his cigar. "I've been smoking for 92 years," said the patron. "No one is going to tell me where I can smoke...
...people are now saying "The Dodgers, of all teams," the Dodger players are saying "The Chief, of all people." Campanis had a reputation for fairness: he once traded his son to the Athletics. And the Latin players, in particular, have regarded him as a patron. Pedro Guerrero murmured, "Probably, if it wasn't for him, I would've been somewhere else . . . I know he didn't mean to say that." The question is, How many others did he speak...
...some aluminum siding to a gullible homeowner. Ask them why they spend all this creative energy either on the job or drinking it off, and they will probably confess that they do it to support a family they rarely see and in whom they have no more than a patron's interest. The losers among them, like Tilley (Danny DeVito), just want to score big. The winners, like B.B. (Richard Dreyfuss), just want...
...political necessity for the contras. As Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, if the contras do not have "some kind of success" soon, they will likely forfeit American support. The contras' greatest weakness could be the nature of their great-power patron. It could be that the U.S. does not have the patience to support the incremental struggle that is guerrilla war. And the contras certainly cannot win without outside support. Very few guerrilla armies do. Not even the Viet Cong...