Word: souvenir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...projected 350,000 by year's end. It is a subsidiary of New Life Clinics, a private company that is the largest Christian counseling chain in the U.S. WOF, with headquarters in Plano, Texas, has its own management; its revenues, largely from fees and souvenir sales, totaled $6.1 million in 1997. They are expected to more than double this year. The appeal? Good old-fashioned therapy, cloaked in the Ten Commandments...
...none of the visitors at the souvenir concession last week begrudged the earl the style to which he is accustomed. After all, the host was in the courtyard, surrounded by his three small daughters, cordially greeting the guests. "This is going to be very emotional," said Jones as she began her tour of the stables turned museum. Look, there is Diana's wedding gown. There, the handwritten draft of the earl's famous funeral oration. There, on a lakeside garden temple, is a plaque with Diana's words, "Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running...
...Another souvenir Discovery brings home: A successful navigation experiment with Global Positioning System satellites. For the first time ever, the shuttle successfully received GPS data -- and that's something of a relief after a $33 million antimatter experiment was ruined Tuesday by communication breakdowns. Coming after the antenna malfunction that prevented TV broadcasts of their Mir hookup, the astronauts must have wondered whether their record of woes would outpace the Russian station's. Now the only thing they need worry about is storage space...
...HIGH-TECH SOUVENIR FROM THE SLOPES...
Tiger Woods' lawsuit against the Franklin Mint over an unauthorized souvenir commemorating the 1997 Masters was settled with Woods receiving "a substantial monetary settlement" and a permanent injunction barring the company from using his name and likeness...