Word: proprietors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many Bicentennial promotions are having early success. "Anything under $5 sells like crazy," says Jamie Goodchild, proprietor of Heritage Shop in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall. He stocks inexpensive "antique" flasks, walking sticks and fife-and-drum records along with quality pewter. But there are doubts over all the Bicentennial schlock...
...Robert Altman, who is planning to film Ragtime, and with the magical trickle of ragtime music. These are good analogies, but a passage from the novel might give a better idea. Father is a Harvard-educated family man, the owner of a large house in Westchester County, and the proprietor of a thriving business manufacturing firework displays and patriotic gear. Past president of the New York Explorer's Club, he is setting out upon the North Atlantic with Admiral Peary to explore the Pole, to conquer it. It is the fulfillment of a dream...
...home of Cabanes of Le Parisien Libéré." The newspaper, largest morning daily in France, has been wracked since March by periodic strikes of a heavily Communist printers' union, the Fédération du Livre. The strikes were inspired by layoffs ordered by the proprietor, Emilien Amaury (who also owns the lucrative sport newspaper L 'Equipe). Because Le Parisien Libéré, like most French papers, was having financial problems, Amaury announced early this year that he would cut the payroll by some 300 employees, including 200 printers. After a series of walkouts...
...other night I called Nick for the latest word. He is getting paid a total of $12 a week by the Thistle Dew proprietor, who gives him room and board and knows that Nick himself is grounded. Nick says he and Penny may be ready to make a move soon. An anonymous caller rang her up a few days ago and said "I saw where you went the other day." Nick has heard that it's possible for them to get married in Georgia and make it stick. If courage holds they may soon light out to the south...
...separated from the decision to extract the resources. Any development should be part of a national energy policy created in cooperation with the states and the people and should use methods least damaging to the environment. If the Supreme Court decides that the Federal Government is the proprietor of the offshore areas, then revenues derived from them should be shared with the coastal states to compensate them for unavoided adverse effects. This program, if accepted, would facilitate rather than delay the nation's quest...