Word: ales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...print department also occupies rented space on the second floor of the Harvard-owned Oxford Ale House building, above The Border Cafe...
Reagan spent two full hours getting ready for the finale. Up in his private quarters, he sipped warm ginger ale to clear his throat, calm a stomach upset from the night before. "Remember," cautioned Nancy, "this is your last one." Reagan got an impish look. "Oh, I don't know about that." Most other people think they...
...Foster's Lager, launched a hostile $2.7 billion takeover bid for Scottish & Newcastle Breweries in October, the Edinburgh company responded with a counterattack worthy of Robert Bruce. For the next two months, S & N will ship to 30 countries around the world 36 million bottles of its Newcastle Brown Ale with the labels printed upside down. "It's a symbolic way of saying hands off, thumbs down, keep away," explains managing director David Stephenson. S & N executives hope that publicity about the campaign will persuade the British government to stop the raid by Elders, which has bought...
...quarter of a chain). But the furlong will stay because it occurs only in sports, as will the troy ounce (31 g, vs. 28 g for the standard ounce) because gold-bullion operations couldn't survive without it. As for the pint, the measure of morning milk and evening ale for millions, London hopes the Community will agree that it just wouldn't be cricket to abolish...
Weidman, whose sales reached $200,000 last year, defends his drink's name by arguing that "Shirley Temple" has become part of the English language and thus is no longer a trademark. After all, he notes, when bartenders mix ginger ale and grenadine to make a Shirley Temple, they do not need Black's permission. The difference, Black counters, is that bartenders, unlike Weidman, are not trying to push a product...