And he rose to the occasion, proposing lunch at a fine restaurant and a matinee at the Metropolitan Opera ("La Bohème").
Ms. Wittenberg proposed lunch at Molyvos, a popular Greek restaurant on Seventh Avenue in the 50s, around the corner from her office.
I remember Robert Fisk and I receiving a text message from one distinguished and brave British correspondent in another part of Baghdad regretting that he could not meet us at our hotel because his head of security had decided that our proposed lunch was "not an operational necessity".
Actually, he had proposed at lunch, over a tuna-fish salad".
The question of who proposed the lunch reveals the deeper issues in the legal dispute, which friends of the litigants compare to a bitter divorce, with both men seeking custody of their shared power and reputation.
… –Nick Fox Mother Jones: … And this magazine laments the gutting of proposed healthy-lunch standards in the Agriculture Department spending bill, saying it reveals the power of "big food and its friends on the Hill".
Indicator report sheets were developed for every IRG and included quantitative indicators expressed in mean or percentage (eg: pupils' activity participation rate), qualitative (literal) indicators (eg: ranges of food proposed for lunches, delivery or not of activity).
We even had a man proposing over Christmas lunch.
"You're really eating a piece of three-hundred-year-old technology," one says, prior to unveiling a device that proposes to revolutionize lunch by pumping liquefied chicken through a lawn sprinkler.
His second, to Neela Devi after Geeta had died of smallpox in 1965, was proposed, together with lunch at his place, on the telephone; he had last seen her, a nine-year-old with pigtails, as he acted at 19 with his father's theatre company.
In the continuing quest to improve the health quotient of school lunches, experts have proposed fancy chefs, cutesy lunch boxes and smiley-faced stickers.
