Nowadays, the Regent is the place Liza Minnelli chose for her wedding reception, the place nonprofits hold $1,000-a-plate benefits, senators hold caucuses and movie stars smile for the paparazzi.
It's a popular and populist idea, to tax so-called gold plated benefits.
FOOTNOTES The novelist Joyce Carol Oates is to receive the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement in a ceremony on Nov. 11 at a $1,000-a-plate benefit dinner for that literary magazine at the restaurant Daniel, where last year's winner, E. L. Doctorow, will present her prize of $5,000.
Prestressing the FRP plate brings benefits such as the improvement of the serviceability of the beam, but difficulties still exist with in situ prestressing and anchoring operations, so the prestressing technique has not received wide acceptance in practice.
The catch is that although these immigrants are probably alive because they can stay in the United States, they are ineligible for a full plate of welfare benefits.
"This is my passion," he said, gesturing at the Allen Room, which was full of people in formal wear that had paid $1,500 a plate to benefit Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Instead, it was the Baltimore Orioles — the same team that played spoiler to the Red Sox on the final day of the season last year with a game-ending play at the plate — who benefited from this outcome.
The state Assembly passed a bill Thursday that would establish a Snoopy license plate to benefit California museums.
Annie Morhauser, who has been hand-crafting glass tableware in Watsonville, Calif., for 27 years, has introduced sea-themed swimming-pool-blue plates that benefit the Seafood Watch program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which distributes buying guides for sustainable seafood.
It's not about having things handed to you on a plate – ban all benefits, I say – it's about knowing that if you graft you'll always have a chance to do well off your own bat.
What ran in the woods now sits on my plate, without the benefit of an inspector's stamp or the supermarket's sanctifying fluorescence.
