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Account # 32-141-93 which we use to supplement our regular (meager) budget in order to pay visiting speaker honoraria, give student awards and finance special receptions.
Dolley Madison, he explains, controlled her diminutive husband and "launched the White House's first 'drawing room' receptions which, in her day, were celebrated--the men in 'black or blue coat with vest, black breeches and black stockings,' the ladies 'not remarkable for anything so much as for the exposure of their swelling breasts and bare backs.
As an Inner Circle member you will receive select seating during the Convention, and special invitations to dinners, receptions and activities throughout the week.
These include watching an NBA game together at the White House, receptions, bill signings, breakfasts, dinners, gift exchanges (an autographed basketball for the president, the book of Psalms for Hillary) and an invitation (declined) from Clinton to Coia to join him on a trip to Haiti.
I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).