Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts at tax reform remind me of one of Denmark's better-known fairy tales," said the President during his dinner toast. "When I talk about (reforming the tax system), I can visualize a beautiful swan. All the special interests see is an ugly duckling...
...truckers are lining up for seconds at the breakfast buffet (all you can eat for $3.99 -- biscuits with chipped-beef gravy, fruit cup, French toast with syrup, bacon, pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, doughnuts, Danish, cereal in little boxes...
...many when she says, "A glass of wine is part of civilized life. But we're inclined in this country to go overboard on everything. I believe in moderation in all things." Whether with a small glass of water, wine or something harder, the proposition deserves a hearty toast...
...America's changing drinking habits: "The situation has reversed. People see alcohol not as part of their career but as something that could conceivably mess it up." San Francisco Reporter Jane Ferguson realized how much journalism had changed when she and two colleagues raised their glasses at lunch to toast another writer. Says she: "What was in our glasses? Bottled mineral water. Not a drop of alcohol for any of us." Washington Reporter Susan Schindehette also finds abstemiousness among her sources. "It is the rare interviewee these days who asks for a couple of Scotches over lunch," she says. Reporter...
...evening around the Leuschner Observatory in Lafayette, Calif., a few enterprising rattlesnakes slither out to toast themselves on the asphalt parking lot, which retains the warmth of the sun long after the air has cooled. Inside, a 30-in. telescope begins a laborious computer-controlled search of the heavens, covering only a tiny patch of sky during the next six hours of darkness. And the following day, at the nearby University of California campus in Berkeley, Physicist Richard Muller, like a seer divining entrails, scrutinizes the new batch of video recordings from Lafayette. He seeks a sign...