Word: western
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Nowhere is Graber's clean and classic style more grandly evident than in Winfield House, the London residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Britain that he and Haines renovated for Publisher Walter Annenberg at a cost of more than $1 million. Graber's following is predominantly Western and wealthy, including such clients as the Alfred Bloomingdales (department stores) and the Henry Salvatoris (oil). Says Grace Salvatori: "He has a great sense of color and quality. The night Ted Graber has finished, everything is complete, right down to the flowers and bonbons on the tables. Your husband comes...
...Japan figures that it will be paying out another $5 billion on top of 1980's $60 billion. In the U.S. the oil tab will also rise by $5 billion, to perhaps as high as $100 billion. Higher crude prices will quicken the pace of inflation in all Western countries. Washington experts predicted that in the U.S. the OPEC decision would boost the cost of gasoline at the pump by 4.70 per gal. and the price of heating oil by the same amount...
...million bbl. a Saudi Arabia is also threatening to its production and send oil prices $50 per bbl. Oil Minister Yamani is demanding that world energy companies carrying heavy stocks start them down faster and that West nations stop squirreling more oil away strategic reserves. Indeed, the Saudis prod Western countries to remind them that OPEC price restraint or petroleum production could end at any time...
Terrence Daniels, president of Western Publishing, is equally bullish: "Every year our Little Golden Books sell 35 million in the domestic market and about 10 million abroad in 90 different countries. This is a growth business...
Society's altered states have brought unpredictable caroms. Western Publishing's Daniels notes, "More women are working, and there are more surrogate parents. They're paying more attention to their children's development and to the books they buy. More children have two sets of parents-and two sets of books...