Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cloth robes. Now some hoteliers are adding a twist: lending sporting goods and clothes to guests at no extra charge. In several cases, the manufacturers provide the merchandise free in an effort to snare new customers. Boston's Ritz-Carlton offers Rockport walking shoes, Spalding baseball equipment and Canadian Royal skates. The rival Four Seasons Hotel in Boston hands out Reebok shoes. At the RiverPlace Alexis Hotel in Portland, Ore., guests can don Nike jogging suits and shoes. The sporting-goods company, based in nearby Beaverton, is negotiating with three leading hotel chains that are interested in offering Nike products...
SIMILARITY BREEDS CONTENTMENT. If the Democrats are a "rainbow coalition," the Republicans display a narrower palette. Many women in the Dome were color coordinated: their red high heels matched the royal hue of the convention's carpet. The men sported tans that matched their tan suits. It was all so homogeneous. Comedian Jackie Mason, wandering around the convention, observed that "everyone here looks like they have a relative who is a West Point graduate. They all look like if they had sex they wouldn't get excited. They look like they wouldn't call for help if they were drowning...
...threat. Specialists worry about countries like Libya, Burma, Cuba, Peru, Ethiopia and Viet Nam, some of which are believed to have employed chemical weapons in battle. Even terrorist groups and drug runners can get their hands on poison gases. Warns Elisa Harris, a visiting research fellow at Britain's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies: "Other Third World countries can now look at Iraq and think, 'If I find a situation in which chemical warfare will help militarily, I might go ahead because obviously I might not have to pay a high political price...
Lady Di Dry Cleaners refuses to drop the "cleaners to the royal family" line or to change its name, and the consulate admits it cannot legally force the owners to do so. Storoni insists that "Lady Di" is a childhood nickname. Those who are offended, says Partner Marinelli, should ask for "a little less starch in their laundry...
Later that day in Northern Ireland, a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary died when an I.R.A. car bomb detonated as he drove through Lisburn, ten miles south of Belfast. Half an hour later in West Belfast, two gunmen dragged an off-duty Ulster Defense Regiment lance corporal from a supermarket and, as his wife and two-year-old daughter looked on, shot him dead. The next morning a part-time private in the U.D.R. was shot to death 40 miles west of Belfast. Two men were gunned down in nearby County Fermanagh when an I.R.A. squad let loose with...