Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prices of many goods and services aimed at Americans. The Hermes scarf that now costs "only" $70 in Paris was also about $70 three or four years ago, when the dollar was worth 5 francs instead of nearly 10. At $131, the cheapest room at the Plaza-Athenee is a soupcon higher than it was five years ago, although the rate for more expensive rooms is lower. The tourist traffic, though, is not strictly rational. To a passionate bargain hunter, squandering money is part of the fun. One Californian, Joanne Pearson, flew to France just to accompany her son home...
...funeral corteges, the coffins draped with red hammer-and-sickle flags, met at Santiago's Plaza de Armas and then together made the slow journey to the ceme tery. Chile's banned Communist Party last week paid respects to two of its activists, who, together with a third man, had been found two days earlier in a field on the city's outskirts, their throats slit and their bodies mutilated. The funerals drew a sympathetic crowd of about 20,000 people. Unlike the previous day, when clubs and water cannons were used against demonstrators, this time police stood...
Overlooking the Charles River and adjacent to the Kennedy School, the airy brick and glass development includes a luxury hotel, 36 condominiums, a seven story office building, and a spacious plaza of specialty shops...
Last Sunday, over a late dinner at New York City's Plaza hotel, Pierce and Goldenson briefed ABC's division presidents about the impending merger. The next morning, the word went out to two dozen other top management people, and finally the deal was revealed. Up until the formal announcement, Murphy and Goldenson had insisted that the proposed merger be kept a secret in order to prevent premature speculation in ABC's stock. Said Goldenson: "We were fortunate that there were no leaks...
Ortega made the first move. While the inauguration was taking place, Nicaraguan representatives ascended from their third-floor quarters in Montevideo's aging Victoria Plaza Hotel to the heavily guarded fifth floor. There, they formally asked Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs Craig Johnstone for a meeting with Shultz. The U.S. had already decided to agree...