Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing to pay to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom or ride on Air Force One. It's quite another to pay $7,000 a head to watch Bill Clinton deliver an eight-minute talk on radio. But that's what Johnny Chung, no stranger to the White House, apparently did. Democratic officials and lawyers for the California entrepreneur tell TIME that he gave $50,000 to the Democratic National Committee in exchange for the invitation for him and six business friends from China to watch Clinton sound off on everything from welfare reform to college loans. Exactly how the deal...
While airline marketers weave illusions of high-altitude happiness, the suits on the ground are slashing costs. First to go are the so-called amenities that would enhance the passenger's ride. According to Back Associates, airlines spent just 7.84% of overall expenses on passenger services in 1996, down from 9.45% in 1987. Enjoy the pretzels. Here's what else you can look forward...
...beat cop and in the arrest mode," says Watson. "I'd ride around looking for people committing crimes...
...expected to be at the dinner table on time. "The most severe form of punishment was when our father wouldn't talk to us for a week." When Madeleine was invited to the prom in ninth grade, it triggered a family fight over whether she would be allowed to ride in the boy's car. Her father's compromise: she rode to the prom with her date, and her father followed them in his car. Then Josef drove Madeleine home when the dance ended...
...biggest obstacle Harvard had to overcome in its last meeting with Cornell was the long bus ride, as the Crimson flattened...