Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Labor Department survey of 305 Chicago-area restaurants revealed that 91% were underpaying their workers. Two restaurants in Miami Beach, Newport Pub and Roney Pub, were ordered by a federal judge this summer to pay $250,000 in back wages to more than 900 past and present employees. A part-owner of both restaurants is Walter Kaplan, the vice mayor of Miami Beach...
...each block has an intelligence officer and an education officer. The inmates speak Gaelic; those who do not know the language are taught inside the prison. The entire hierarchy is run by a shrewd, tough commander, Brendan McFarlane, 25, who is serving 25 years for blowing up a pub and killing five civilians...
...Pub 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...
...arrival in London in 1909. A wealthy, enigmatic figure of taciturnity and gangling good looks, the Westerner has come to England to explore the roots his forebears pulled up in 1642. He settles in as squire of the ancestral village, Castle Lancing, is accepted at the local pub, marries into the aristocracy, and even becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been...
...RUMOUR ARE inextricably linked with Rockpile: They even cover a Lowe song on their new album. Both bands are from the "pub rock" scene family tree of the early seventies, where band and audience got drunk and danced together. The movement was shorter lived than the hula hoop, and left these two groups without a musical home. The Rumour formed as a studio band for gas-station-attendant-turned-songwriter Graham Parker, and have had trouble appearing from behind his shadow. Their problem is not musical ability; they play everything from Motown to reggae to Abba, all with their...