Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the new issues may appeal to stamp collectors, legislators expect that drug dealers will ignore them -- and open themselves to further criminal prosecution. Anyone caught selling drugs without the stamps faces up to three years in jail and a $10,000 fine...
...more martinis than we were two years ago," reports Kevin O'Mara, bartender at the Pump Room in Chicago's Ambassador East Hotel. According to the Distilled Spirits Council, the vodka martini, though spurned by purists, is now the most popular drink in the nation's capital. Its appeal has helped boost vodka imports from 51,000 gal. in 1976 to 5 million gal. today. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, Buyer Susan Davis cannot keep martini sets in stock. "I'm telling all manufacturers to get busy," she says. "We can move as many as they can make...
...kinds of reasons for the return of the old classic. Martin Hehman of the Drake Hotel in Chicago cites maturity: "As you get older you don't drink all night, so you want a drink that lets you know you had a drink." Then there is the aesthetic appeal of cold, clear liquid in a crystal cone. At Nell's, a New York club, Aspiring Actress Sally Carruthers wears a flared crinoline mini to match her martini glass. "Tip me upside down and . . . well, the same silhouette," she giggles...
...Pennzoil $3 billion. That is far less than the $10.5 billion penalty that a Texas jury ordered Texaco to give Pennzoil in 1985. The jury held that in early 1984 Texaco illegally acquired Getty Oil, which had already promised to merge with Pennzoil. But Texaco was determined to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The stakes were frighteningly high. If Pennzoil refused to settle and then lost, it might have wound up with nothing. If Texaco lost, it would have been destroyed...
...Gardiner Greene Hubbard, set the tone for the enterprise by declaring, "The world and all that is in it is our theme." When Bell hired his future son-in-law, a schoolteacher named Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 23, to run the magazine in 1899, the young man catered to snob appeal by soliciting "nominations for membership" instead of subscriptions. The device eventually created the largest nonselective society in the world. Grosvenor's grandson Gil now serves as president of the nonprofit society, which last year showed an estimated $370 million in revenues...