Word: salade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the attractions: a suite for two at the four-star Mayflower Hotel, one block north of the Champs Elysées, complete with terrace, breakfast, tax and service, costs $50.90 (scarcely $5 more than a Holiday Inn around Detroit). Lunch for two at an elegant restaurant (green salad, gigot d'agneau, Cabernet Sauvignon and chocolate charlotte) runs $40. More modest pocketbooks can find such café fare as a small quiche or an omelet at $2, a chef's salad at $3.55. A 14-block rush-hour cab ride comes to $2.25, sans...
...which disclosed that Reagan would leave the White House at 1:45 p.m. to address a session of the AFL-ClO's building and construction trades department at the Washington Hilton. The President had lunch at the White House in the family quarters. He ate an avocado and chicken salad, sliced red beets and an apple tart. Then he worked on his Hilton speech and stretched out for a brief rest...
Lunch at 1 p.m. in the White House second-floor dining room is a wooing session with representatives of 20 Hispanic organizations. As usual, Reagan dines with gusto: a rich shellfish soup, filet mignon, artichoke salad, California red wine and fruit compote. He assures his guests that five Hispanic appointments to the sub-Cabinet are "in the pipeline." By 2:15 p.m. he is back at his desk, making phone calls and signing papers...
...will have already come and gone by then, maintaining the new darker shade of blond she has adopted on the recommendation of an image consultant. Lunch, if not official, is likely to be a salad brought in by her secretary. Dinner is regularly taken at the House of Commons with backbenchers, a habit that builds political capital. It also saves cooking: the Thatchers have no regular cook. After dinner she may have guests for drinks in the family quarters or settle down to several hours of paperwork. Says an aide: "Hers is a nononsense, no-fuss life...
...Saturday morning at 10 a.m., the bankers reconvened in the Secretary's conference room on the third floor of the Treasury Building. For the next nine hours they negotiated over the method for transferring the assets to Iran, while consuming gallons of coffee along with chicken salad and roast beef sandwiches from the Capitol Hill Deli. Meanwhile, telephone and telex lines were kept open round the world. Explained one banker: "All this had to be communicated periodically by telex to the Iranians to make sure that it was O.K. We conveyed each document as we concluded it." Government officials...