Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court's pronouncement grew out of a case from Puerto Rico, where the former owners of the Condado Plaza Hotel and Casino had invoked the First Amendment guarantee of free speech to challenge a local ban on advertising by gambling casinos. Because of the crime and corruption that gambling could attract, Puerto Rico could have outlawed betting altogether, stated Justice William Rehnquist for the court, and the "greater power to completely ban casino gambling necessarily includes the lesser power to ban advertising of casino gambling." More ominously for other advertisers, Rehnquist suggested that the same logic could be used...
...overlap of responsibilities between private and public agencies has meant no peace and plenty of worries. "It's a clumsy bureaucracy," Adlerstein admits good-naturedly. Most disputes have been small. Burgee, architect of the new Liberty Island plaza, had a recent week long argument with the Park Service over the proper color (his white vs. its gray) of outdoor chairs. After 15 phone calls he surrendered...
...country wedding to the metropolitan bash. "What people are in touch with is real fresh, friendly and simple food--fresh fruits and veggies, healthy foods nicely prepared," says David Christian, sales director for Gaper's Caterers in Chicago. Notes S. Alexander, catering director of New York City's Plaza hotel: "We had a very elegant wedding in June, where cost was no consideration, and we served a poultry item as the main course. In the past this would have been taboo at a black-tie dinner...
...says Jim Patterson, spokesman for the Canada pavilion. On a nice day there are almost certain to be gobs of children cavorting in a playground sea of plastic orange balls or in UFO H20, a humorous collection of splashing fountains made to look like alien space objects. The Land Plaza, with everything from a Singapore trishaw and a Philippine jeepney to a Hong Kong double-decker bus, provides comparable delights. Children, and more than a few adults, climb all over the extravagantly colored vehicles and honk their horns as if they had never heard such sounds before...
When Vice President George Bush arrived at the fashionable Amway Grand Plaza Hotel last week, a full police escort flanked his 15-car motorcade, and the cream of Grand Rapids society turned out, checkbooks at the ready. New York Congressman Jack Kemp made a less elaborate entrance: he arrived at the Midway Motor Lodge on the outskirts of town late one night and was lmet the next morning by grass-roots Republican activists with toddlers in tow. Although the next Republican presidential nominee will not be chosen for more than two years, Bush and Kemp find themselves already engaged...