Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spent a busy night ensuring that Britain's Princess Anne departed safely after her three-day visit to the gulf. So they were not overly thorough in checking passengers hurrying through to catch the plane to Karachi, which was leaving at about the same time as the royal flight. Several youths in their 20s who had arrived on a connecting flight from Beirut evidently managed to bypass a security check in the transit lounge and went directly to the departure gate...
...listen to outraged screams from every imaginable lobby, from farmers to museum directors, before deciding which ideas to put forward as potentially salable, or at any rate worth a fight, in his State of the Union and budget messages early next year. After that, there will be a battle royal on Capitol Hill, with the outcome unpredictable. The tax and budget plans could set the terms for national debate over domestic policy for years into the future...
...banks' foreign-loan officers, many of whom were M.B.A.s in their mid-twenties, became accustomed to royal treatment in capitals throughout the developing world. In a Harper's magazine article last year, S.C. Gwynne, a former loan officer for a "medium-size Midwestern bank," described a 1978 visit to Manila, where he met with representatives of a Philippine construction company with connections to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos. After being whisked through customs, Gwynne found a red Jaguar and a pretty 20-year-old woman at his disposal. "The girl was unexpected," he wrote. "Bangkok Bank gave...
...First issued in 1797, it is being replaced by a thick metal-alloy coin. Like the Susan B. Anthony dollar in the U.S., the heavy coin has been unpopular. But since the useful life of a paper pound is ten months, vs. 40 years for the coin, the Royal Mint expects to save $3.75 million a year. The British have already dubbed the new coin the Maggie, after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, because it is hard, rough around the edges and, says one Member of Parliament, "pretends to be a sovereign...
...second exotic subject is more mysterious, almost surreal. It is a zebra mare, which had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope and given to Queen Charlotte in 1762. This "painted African, ass," the first seen in England, was installed in the royal menagerie at Buckingham Gate. When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it. It is as though one had taken a wrong turn in the Forest of Arden and encountered...