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...been very popular, more popular than one might have guessed, with younger women graduates for a very specific reason," Rothschild says. "Women in business today like to take clients to lunch the way men do and it's hard. You go to a restaurant with a man and the waiter will inevitably give the man the check. This way the women like to be able to take someone to their club," he adds, but women remain greatly outnumbered in what is still essentially a male institution...
...memo, which was quickly leaked, to the budget cut ters at the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Harris, 54. the Illinois-born Pullman-car waiter's daughter who is the only black in the Cabinet, heatedly complained that the ceiling proposed by the OMB on her department's budget (currently $9.1 billion) was "barely defensible." If OMB had its way, she asserted, the subsidized housing program in the 1980 budget would not only be "socially regressive" but "unprecedentedly low" in comparison with previous Democratic and even Republican programs. It would...
...Charlotte, N.C., area one day last week, hundreds of happy tipplers crowded into restaurants to toast a hotly debated new state law allowing such places to serve drinks for the first time in 70 years. Hank Stoppelbein, 23, a part-time waiter who fired down the first shot (a $1.50 Bloody Mary) at Benedictine's Restaurant at 8:04 a.m., pronounced it not just an eye opener but "history, right there along with George Washington crossing the Delaware." Said the one-word banner headline on the Charlotte News front page: CHEERS...
...excuses herself and goes to the ladies' room ("I'll just freshen up my war paint"), not returning until the man has settled the bill. b) She offers the man a cigar, quarrels with the waiter's addition, pays the check from a roll of 50s and makes a knowledgeable remark about the vicissitudes of the Baltimore Colts. c) She extracts from her ice cream dish a fragment of broken glass brought along for just this purpose. She and her companion complain loudly about foreign objects in the food, and both exit in a huff, leaving the check unpaid...
...impromptu speech went over well. "He may be a foreigner but he speaks our language," said a woman in the square. "Why shouldn't we have a foreign Pope?" asked a Rome cabbie. "After all, St. Peter was one." Lounging in his cafe on a day off, Waiter Lucio Ruspoli said, "It's a breath of fresh air after 4½ centuries. And now the Pope won't be so involved in Italy's politics...