But there was also a lot to celebrate at the dinner, held at the Waldorf Astoria.
Since last summer, the Waldorf has been running an amnesty program designed to reclaim these long lost goods.
"It's not the Waldorf, but it's not a mattress on the floor either, " said John Webb, a 52-year-old Atlantic City resident.
The Starlight Room on the 18th floor of the Waldorf Astoria seemed to get perceptibly warmer as the debate ran on.
And for truly large crowds, there's always one of the Waldorf's ballrooms.
David Murrin says, staring across a table at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as he explains why the U.S. is doomed to economic and military decline.
The best items are currently displayed on the Waldorf Astoria's archive website while a small selection are being exhibited at the hotel itself.
While the muffins cooled, we prepared the reward for our brave work: eggs Benedict to rival anything turned out by the kitchen at the Waldorf.
Last month, for the first time, Foster was invited to make a presentation at Bear Stearns' annual healthcare conference at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
As election day dwindled to a close, 400 fans waited in a ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York to celebrate Eliot Spitzer .
Paulsen appeared the day after the dinner, exiting an elevator at the Waldorf without entourage or fuss, dressed in a business suit even on a Sunday.
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Representatives from participating countries met for informal talks at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in preparation for official negotiations on the accord due to resume in July in Bonn, Germany.
As he met Mr Obama at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York earlier, Mr Cameron said that Libya was moving to a "good conclusion" after the ousting of Col Gaddafi.
Early last year, she beat out the Waldorf Astoria, Hilton, Pierre Omidyar and Penny Pritzker, among others, to win the right to redevelop the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, D.
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Over the years however some sticky-fingered guests have tried to claim a little bit of the Waldorf magic for themselves, checking out with hotel items as a souvenir of their stay.
Mr. Cuomo talked about some of the gun-control proposals at a fundraiser birthday party he held on Monday at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, according to a person who attended the party.
"If something is obstructing the flow of that radiation, for example a weapon, the device will highlight that object, " said Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who described the device Wednesday in a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
Today over 160 Waldorf schools flourish in the United States including the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, which touts the support, and educates the children, of eBay, Google, Yahoo and Apple executives.
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On any given weeknight, any one of the city's more than 42, 000 nonprofits could be hosting an event at Cipriani or the Waldorf-Astoria, bringing together big names actors, CEOs of blue-chip companies, politicians who make headlines to throw their weight behind the cause.
"We have a lot of fun with it, " said Ms. Batiz, who's been decamping with her husband at the Waldorf. (So I suppose business has to be pretty good.) In fact, she said she got into a conversation on the hotel's taxi line with an elegant woman in a full-length mink who asked her the nature of her company.
Sixty years ago yesterday, the Corvette was unveiled in New York at the posh Waldorf Astoria as part of the General Motors Motorama Show.
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The famed Waldorf Astoria opened at its current location in 1931.
The sponsor for the new academy is the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship.
The Montage, the St Regis and Waldorf Astoria all opened in the last two years, and all have private residences, but with the perks of a five star hotel.
The street buzzes on Friday mornings, the start of the Israeli weekend, with people brunching, shopping and scoping out the arts-and-crafts fair in the courtyard of the alternative Adam Waldorf School.
Leighton Meester plays uppity Blair Waldorf in the TV series Gossip Girl.
The lights went down again, the horn player rebooted, and a spotlight revealed Mayweather and Cotto standing in opposing box seats, like a boxing version of Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets.
This year marks the first time that Couture Fashion Week moves from the Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star Waldorf Astoria New York to its new home in the New Yorker Hotel.
Closer to the tourist centre, a 223-room Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem is set to open in 2013 near the Jaffa Gate.
The only player apart from Goydos who could have overtaken Clarke on the last day was Duffy Waldorf, who was 131st.
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