Word: rothschild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from the wall Rembrandt's painting of Jacob de Gheyn III, worth $5 million. Police roared up within three minutes to find...
...university education. It was announced this spring that the results of next year's bacs would not include the traditional levels of distinction, such as "very good" or "good." To many French educators, watering down the bac is as outrageous as watering down a Château Mouton-Rothschild. Says Guy Bayet, president of the university professors' association: "The bac is the only way you can oblige students to follow a program and acquire basic knowledge. Now that it has been devalued or so-called broadened, all we need...
Pennsylvania State University Professor Constantine Salilios-Rothschild, pointed out that context is crucial to understanding perceptions of women in the Third World. "You have to look at the microcosm in which the woman lives," she said...
...haven't changed. Queen Elizabeth II was in the Western U.S. last week for a ten-day visit, before heading up to British Columbia and, this Friday, back home. Sumptuous feastings? There was everything from maple soufflé and rack of lamb (and 1966 Château Lafite-Rothschild) to a hot heap of chiles rellenos and refried beans. Banquets? In Los Angeles, the Queen ate papaya and heard George Burns tell jokes about octogenarian sex; at an official dinner in Golden Gate Park, goose-liver quenelles in pheasant broth were followed by the San Francisco Opera and Symphony...
...first year under the mea sure, cheaper) that oil costs about $31 per bbl. (and more if crude is cheaper). But the Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, the main consumer antideregulation lobby, argues Says prices would go up, not down, by perhaps 67% within four years. Says Edwin Rothschild, assistant director, referring to an Administration argument: "They that that as much gas will be falling in price as will be rising. To us, that just doesn't make sense...