Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swallow yet another dose of her bitter, monetarist medicine. "This government," she insisted, "has taken the wise and moral course, and I will challenge anyone who takes the contrary view." The new budget will raise government revenue by $7.7 billion-in part by imposing heavy new excise taxes on beer, liquor, cigarettes and gasoline. A fifth of 70-proof Scotch whisky, for example, went up from $11.80 to $13.54. The price of cigarettes jumped 31? to $1.93 a pack. Gasoline increased by 44?, to an eye-opening $3.42 per imperial gal. Consumers will also face increased personal income taxes. Reason...
Spiking the stale beer of Britons' discontent-deepening recession, wallet-walloping new taxes-came a tulip glass of bubbly named Di. When blond, blue-eyed, 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer made her first formal appearance last week as the fiancée of the Prince of Wales, she left the island gasping. Attending a benefit recital at the Goldsmiths' Hall -close to St. Paul's Cathedral, where the royal couple will be married July 29-the Queen-to-be stepped out in a strapless, black silk-taffeta evening gown that radiated a wolf-whistle glamour...
What if you weren't going home for spring break? What if you were never to grab that beer and bag of Fritos, but stay here, at Harvard, to row lightweight crew...
Celebrations of St. Patrick's Day across the country yesterday included green grits and green mink as well as the more common parades and beer...
...traditional "blessing of the keg." After the "blessing," a hoard of Irishmen, in spirit if not in fact, marched two miles from downtown Memphis to Overton Square, stopping at 19 bars and pubs along the way. Following the marchers was a truck with outside spigots--ready to provide beer between stops...