Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demanded and received the record of his "correspondence" with the FBI on the subject. Commercial firms can-and do-try to use Government files as a marketing aid. Example: one company attempted unsuccessfully to get the names and addresses of all people who had bought tax stamps for home wine making. The FTC, the Food and Drug Administration and the Defense Department are constantly turning back efforts by firms to acquire trade secrets of competitors. Says Barbara Keehn, the FTC Freedom of Information chief: "It's a form of industrial espionage, except that they do it under...
...long predinner cocktail hour is vanishing; at most parties, white wine, dry sherry or a light aperitif is served?briefly ?instead of the palate-numbing Scotches and martinis of yesteryear. Preprandial hors d'oeuvres?"horrors d'oeuvres," as an English hostess once dubbed those limp, gluey concoctions?have yielded to crisp vegetable sprigs and slices. Thereafter come a few well-confected courses that cry, in Jonathan Swift's words, "Come, eat me!" And, of course, a wine or two to dignify their downing...
...result, small investors have pulled out of the market by the millions to put their money into bonds, land, coins, wine-anything that is either tangible or seems less risky than shares. Trading consists mostly of transactions between the big institutions: mutual funds, pension funds, bank trust departments. And managers of the pension funds, who invest more than $100 billion, have a special reason for worry: Congress in 1974 passed a law permitting receivers of pensions to sue managers of the funds for poor investment performance. Fearful fund managers have adopted a supercautious strategy, setting themselves the modest goal...
...gypsy band; a Greek establishment with the salty flavor of Piraeus. Thus at Citicorp it is possible to leave work and, without stepping outside the Center, shop for a book or a new pipe, pick up a bag of custom-blended coffee, cash a check, raise a glass of wine and down a fondue, exchange smiles, go to a play, hear a concert-or even kneel in prayer...
After this kind of treatment at other schools, when Harvard sends you a postcard at the most and gives you the impression that it just might accept you if you're lucky, most high-school ballplayers fall for the wine-and-dine routine. When prospective footballers do visit Harvard, they are put up on the couch of whoever gets stuck with them and are fed in the dining halls. If you had a choice between Tournedos du Boeuf or Polynesian meatless balls, which would you choose...