Word: waldorf
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...lunch counters like the Waldorf and theMug n' Muffin started to close their doors,restaurants aimed at students took their places...
...Last week they were scheduled to attend a dinner on Tuesday at the home of investment banker Steve Rattner; on Sunday Kofi phoned Nane from Baghdad, telling her to assure the hosts he would make it back in time. Holbrooke recalls attending a bash with the Annans at the Waldorf-Astoria last year. "There was a dance band, and most people wandered out at the end," he says. "But he and Nane were out there on the floor all alone, dancing." From now on, that might be a rare sight. World-renowned statesmen don't usually get so much space...
...largely on the strength of a 50% rise in Time Warner stock. "Hey, not bad," Turner recalls thinking at the time. "Why not go for the billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner stunned an audience that included U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan by announcing from the podium that over 10 years he will give $1 billion to fund U.N. programs...
...Sunday before the election last November, Senator Patrick Leahy, an old friend, sat across from Albright in the dining room of her apartment in New York City's Waldorf Towers. Secretary of State Warren Christopher had told Clinton privately that he planned to leave the job, and both Albright and Leahy knew...
...have a difficult time finding a room here this week," says Hilton Hotels CEO Stephen Bollenbach, sitting in the company's flagship Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Of course, he's managed to snag a rather nice...