Word: publican
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Commercial considerations often place the news that sells before the news that counts, favoring the sensational over the significant. Thus, Claus Von Bulow's titillating but irrelevant trial Flogs headlines, and the case of the Rhode Island couple accused of killing their infant daughter leads the local news. The publican can blame the press, but it shares the burden of guild; when America watches television, it sees a reflection of itself...
Hoping to step up enrollment, members of the Residential Committee of the Undergraduate Council have been making last minute efforts to publican the meal plan and to solicit sign-ups from various groups, such as athletes, who will be on campus over vacation, committee chairman Kelly L. Kiegar '85 said yesterday...
...year in 3,000 watering holes and arcades around the country. A machine offering a popular game like jackpots costs nearly $3,000 but may bring in up to $15,000 a month. The slots can be vital for attracting patrons to many cafes or bars. Complains one Paris publican: "If you don't have machines in your place, nobody is going to come any more, and you're going to wind up in debt...
...novel Love Story, the bartender of a former Harvard Square drinkery. Cronin's, toasts the Crimson's top hockey player at the time. Oliver Barrett, caling him "the best Harvard hockey player since the Cleary brothers." If a sequel were written now, a Boathouse publican might well toast Mark and Scott Fusco as "the best Harvard hockey players since Oliver Barrett...
...Owner Roarty tries to kill his philandering barman Eamonn Bales with a toadstool omelet. When the poison fails, the publican does in the cad with a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...