Word: plums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plum: on top of a $20,750 salary, the sheriff by law gets 10% of the delinquent taxes that he collects-an annual windfall of about...
Charles H. Claudon Plum Borough...
Carter supports Kahn and holds up the CAB as an example of the price-cutting benefits of competition, but the two men are not always in accord. After the President overturned the CAB's award of the Dallas-London route to Pan American and gave that plum to Braniff, the fiercely independent Kahn openly criticized the decision and seriously considered quitting...
...Balanchine soon followed. She joined Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater, a company that showcases luminous dancers rather than a single choreographic vision. Purists were appalled and left with a tantalizing question: Would Balanchine have made a masterpiece for Gelsey had she stayed? But Baryshnikov's offer was a plum that few ballerinas could have resisted. Keeping up with him was hard enough. And the glare of publicity that followed his grand jeté to the West offered his partner the brightest, whitest arena in which to succeed or fail...
...just before 1 a.m. when the limousine pulled up before swank Maxwell's Plum. The familiar figure got out and strode towards the maitre d'. He was told the restaurant was closing. "But Muriel and I just want a bite to eat," he said. A bored look around the still-filled premises and a bored reply: "I'm sorry we're about to close." In a moment the car was speeding off into the night, its two solitary passengers disappearing behind the tinted glass...