Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company says the markdown is necessary to protect its hard-won 41% market share. But beer-industry investors fear that the move could escalate into an all-out price war in which profits could be sharply pinched. Predicts beverage-industry analyst Joseph Doyle: "Anheuser decided to join in the barroom brawl. It's going to get bloody...
...ends with a pistol shot. The suffocating weight of depression vanishes, with gunfire, into the imagined peace of death. A hunting trip turns tragic, and a family is destroyed. The stupidity of playing with a loaded weapon leaves a young boy dead. The momentary incivility of a pair of barroom brawlers results in bloody death...
...Colorado State dumped Florida in the first round. Just think, Coleman could have matched up against the Gators' Dwayne Schnitzius in round two. The Barroom Bruiser vs. Mr. Tennis Racket Attack...
...place at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose staff helped plan the agenda. The Soviets were particularly open in what they revealed both about their country's environmental woes and on a personal level. At one point Thompson challenged Morgun to a game of eight ball on a barroom pool table in Juanita's, a Mexican restaurant. To his shock, Thompson not only got his match, but was soundly beaten...
...into their bodies. A much larger group contends that it is hypocritical to ban narcotics while allowing the sale of alcohol and tobacco, two substances that, this group insists, kill far more people by undermining their health and, in the case of alcohol, lead to innumerable auto crashes, barroom brawls and savage family fights. "We've already decriminalized two drugs, alcohol and tobacco," says Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz. "Now it's time to decriminalize a third, heroin...