Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slim, soft-spoken waitress was on duty last January when it happened. Two gunmen suddenly appeared in San Salvador's Sheraton Hotel and shot to death Michael Hammer and Mark David Pearlman, two American labor lawyers, and José Rodolfo Viera, head of the country's controversial land-reform program. Despite the public nature of the killings, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth has learned that if the U.S. Government had not tracked down the waitress, bolstered her courage, persuaded her to testify and actively pressured the Salvadoran government, authorities would not have arrested Ricardo Sol Meza, a wealthy industrialist...
Salvadoran detectives summoned to the Sheraton Hotel after the shootings of Hammer, Pearlman and Viera managed to find not a single witness. But an American diplomat breakfasting in the Sheraton shortly afterward asked his waitress, Teresa Torres, if she had seen anything the night of the killings. "If I did," the woman replied, "I'm afraid they would kill...
...possible extradition in connection with the murders. His arrest followed the seizure in El Salvador a week earlier of Ricardo Sol Meza, 35, a wealthy industrialist and, significantly enough, part owner of the San Salvador Sheraton. The arrests were based in part on the testimony of a hotel waitress who had witnessed the murders...
...Little House on the Prairie, reneges on an agreement to buy honey from children. In the series Alice, the son of the program's star urges her to work somewhere else because of the low wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where she works as a waitress. Shirley, a black former cab driver who was the wise and friendly heroine of One in a Million, inherited a conglomerate, but she was counterpointed against another executive who was pompous, stiff and stupid...
...nightly at a growing number of movie bars in the South and Northeast, where patrons may chase a good flick-or drown a bad one-with beer, wine or cocktails. Seated in executive-style leather swivel chairs ranged around butcher-block cocktail tables, customers have only to beckon a waitress for refills or to order sandwiches. They manage thus to combine the comforts of home with the fillip of a night out. Indeed, sipping cinemas may be a shot to stimulate the film industry...