A Paris restaurateur remarked recently that his high fixed-costs of maintaining an appealing establishment with a large staff meant that every customer costs him $70 before he eats or drinks anything.
Tracing Russia's relative economic underdevelopment and its authoritarian social and political institutions to the cost of maintaining a huge military establishment is scarcely new.
Chefs have a taste for melodrama - and that is something that is always in abundance in the frenetic world of a busy kitchen.What has changed is the situation in France, where maintaining a three-star establishment has become increasingly prohibitive - if not impossible - financially.
Byrnes called for the United States to maintain a military establishment in western Europe to prevent Soviet expansion there.
In 1840 on the floor of the House of Representatives, Representative Charles Ogle of Pennsylvania questioned whether Americans should maintain "a royal establishment" for the president in addition to his salary.
Chandos maintained a musical establishment; some of the musicians are known to have doubled as household servants but even so, musical standards were very high.
But maintaining an outsider identity is next to impossible when you've become so firmly a part of the establishment.
In their place stand backward looking, establishment figures intent on maintaining a certain religiosity.
Ordinarily a patient and reasonable woman, she began to complain bitterly of the ghastly noise, its effect on human beings, the waste of money, the chaos, the futility — all, she said, to maintain a bloated military establishment in peacetime.
What to expect: Art and culture are the driving forces behind this grand-style villa, which appears more like a palace than a hotel yet the founder's daily presence at the 51-room establishment ensures that it maintains an intimate feel.
