Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queen Lear leaves the actual running of the company to Auld and his managers, but she participates in all the meetings and describes her role as being the firm's den mother. Says Auld: "She's here to validate the project with customers, vendors and the industry...
...local banks for $50 and $100 bills to be used in the night's gaming. Dentists reported patients, even with mouths full of cotton, soliciting them to join the club. Games were held in unlikely hideaways, including Hollywood sound studios, chartered buses and the Grand Salon of the Queen Mary at anchorage in Long Beach...
What do you give the monarch who has everything? Knowing Queen Elizabeth II's fondness for horseflesh, Australians decided to commemorate her silver jubilee three years ago with a Thoroughbred. A champion sire was bred to six mares. Of four foals resulting, one was a colt (the Queen preferred a filly), another was injured. The remaining pair were recently matched in a speed trial. Last week, visiting Canberra, the Queen paused to accept the winner. "A wonderful present," said Elizabeth, who dubbed the two-year-old bay Australia Fair...
Despite the problems of controlling its growth, California's economic outlook is as bright as the smile of a Rose Bowl queen. By decade's end the population will grow to 26 million. The Golden State is also expected to provide 3 million, or 15%, of the nation's new jobs during the '80s. In sum, California-style tax revolts, together with all that sunshine, provide a good climate for economic growth...
Gladys had plentiful suitors with blue blood and fortunes too: the Crown Prince of Germany, three noble Romans, the venerable Duke of Norfolk, who got down on all fours at her order to play dog, and the Duke of Connaught, the late Queen Victoria's son, whom she dismissed in a letter full of "cruel and seething words...