Word: barrelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rifle sells for $1,700. For just under $1,000, Chicago-style tommy guns are a bargain. The preferred weapon is the Enfield; its bullets cost $1 apiece, as compared with $2.20 for a Kalashnikov round. But Dara's craftsmen will produce any weapon requested. A man polishing the barrel of a Sten gun told me: 'We will do all we can to help the Afghan people. At our factory, all mujahidin receive a 20% discount...
Wine consumption in the U.S. is still only a spit in the barrel by European standards: two gallons annually per capita (vs. 27 in Italy), ranging from less than three quarts per adult in West Virginia to five gallons in Washington, D.C. Nonetheless, the amount of wine drunk in the U.S. has doubled in ten years and is increasing at the rate of 5% yearly. That adds up to a huge present and future market for table wines-particularly for the California vintners, who supply 70% of all the wine consumed in this country...
Because council liberals depend on Vellucci vote to keep the city's rent control and anti-condominium ordinances intact, Vellucci is in a strong position to ask for their votes. "Over a barrel would not be an inaccurate description," a long time city political leader said last week...