Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find many of those streets transformed. There were more spontaneous introductions, ogling of Western clothing and transactions for profit. At the Peace Café, Benefit-the-People Wang had quick eyes for American cigarettes, Inca-bloc watches and hard currencies. He and his friends drank orange soda mixed with beer and discussed which foreign visitor might like to get it on with Golden Thunder Chen...
...have starved to death. Says Melissa Wells, head of the U.N. development program in Uganda: "Famine is looming in West Nile as well." There are severe food shortages even in Kampala, where the average wage is only $67 a month. A bunch of bananas, a staple, sells for $27. Beer is $20 a bottle...
...Early next year it will begin strip-mining 1,500 acres of coal on land that it has been leasing for four years. This will replace 600,000 tons of coal that the company now buys annually on the open market. Last month, with an eye to profits, the beer company created Coors Energy, a subsidiary staffed with some former Exxon employees. The firm may soon become still more active in that field. Says William Coors: "If the energy business is better, we'll be pushing it ahead of the beer business." To swillers of the Golden, Colo., suds...
...Cristo mountains, where he portrays a Mike Royko-like Chicago reporter who has raked so much local muck that his editors have decided to pack him off to the Rockies on a harmless little nature story. There are no racked-up police cars, no food fights, no mashing of beer cans. And no, Belushi does not fall off Purgatory Peak. He falls in love...
...wouldn't catch you. Deborah Harry and the band have a sound that contrives to be both congenial and clammy, like a wet suede coat. In The Tide Is High, their current hit, they sound like a bunch of loaded reggae freaks who wake up in a Mexicali beer joint. As the title implies, this record is a machine-tooled product, but if Detroit had as keen an idea of its market as Blondie, there would be no need for federal subsidies...