Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sexual about grown men wielding huge bats. Just think about it. A player gets into position, looks at some curves and finally puts the wood into the ball. The only problem is that after a game, baseball players are too tired to do anything but sit around and drink beer...
...famous Milwaukee brewers have fallen on hard times. Schlitz no longer makes beer there. Takeover battles simmer among the suds, and mutinous stockholders threaten to dislodge entire boards of directors in nasty brawls not far above the barroom level. The brewers are in a battle for third place in the U.S. beer business, behind leader Anheuser-Busch and second-place Miller. Analysts believe that third largest is big enough to compete with the industry's leaders, but anything much smaller than that level cannot muster the advertising megabucks to fight off relative obscurity and low sales...
...Schlitz Brewing Co., currently the third largest brewer, has a shaky grasp on that rung. Once the largest selling beer in America, Schlitz lost that position in the 1950s to Budweiser, then lost even more ground in the 1970s when it changed to a faster brewing process that yielded an inferior brew. Schlitz later returned to the original formula, but it has yet to win back all its beer lovers...
...detained driv ers for use later as evidence. In Los Angeles some second-time offenders have to use a specially equipped car. After turning on the ignition, the driver must maneuver the steering wheel so that a needle moves into the "pass" area on a gauge. In Maine, Beer Distributor Frank Gaziano of South Portland is pushing bar owners to buy breath analyzers. The customer puts 500 in the slot and blows into the machine through a straw; a red light goes on for a score of . 10% or higher...
...other players call him "Walrus," since it is impossible to look at him and think of anything else. When he speaks, his mustache bobs up and down as punctuation. He is a man of humor, but it is dry. Maybe because his words are dry, his thirst for beer is great...