Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sits at a table in Seattle's Red Robin restaurant almost humbly, nursing a Rainier beer. The slightly graying hair is neatly combed, well trimmed and barely touching the ears. The suit is a conservative gray tweed, the tie quiet and reassuring. So are his soft-spoken musings, hard to hear over the taped jazz and folk music. "America is in good shape," he offers soothingly. "America is not ideologically racist. Americans are willing to give people a fair shake." He could be a small businessman decompressing amiably between a week's rash of orders and the idyl...
...state buddies then plunged into a peculiarly American form of modern revolutionism for several months. By day, they harangued students at Seattle's high school and college campuses on the war, racism and capitalism. By night they caroused into the early hours in a blurry continuum of beer, pot, sex and leftist war cries. But the frenetic "mobilizing" and hedonism was itself a clue to Marshall's own eventual disillusionment with radicalism. He had broken with S.D.S. in 1969 when it was taken over by the hate-filled and paranoid Weatherman. He says now, "The cultural thing really...
...appealed to them with unexpected effectiveness. Like Kennedy, he campaigned for only two days in Wisconsin, but his advancemen turned out big crowds. He became the first G.O.P. presidential candidate in memory to appear at Serb Hall in Milwaukee, a hallowed rallying place for ethnic Democrats, and wowed a beer-drinking, blue-collar crowd with simplistic conservative appeals. He pledged to "whack away at the fat, extravagant Government in Washington." Listeners cried, "Give 'em hell, Ronnie...
...either bringing down hostile regimes, muting their policies or stopping U.S. goods from getting through. Viet Nam has been subject to a trade ban since the 1975 fall of Saigon. Yet that country easily imports American products, ranging from drilling equipment and spare tractor parts to cigarettes and beer, by shipping them through Hong Kong or Singapore. Indeed, the ban is taken so lightly that Hong Kong exporters last year openly declared that $2 million worth of exports to Viet Nam were of U.S. origin. While the embargoes make the symbolic point that the U.S. will not tolerate Soviet aggression...
...untouched. To raise revenues, North Sea oil taxes were hiked 10% for oil companies, adding to the $1.1 billion already gushing into the treasury's coffers as high-grade crude comes fully onstream. Alas for the ordinary Briton, new excise taxes raised the price of his beloved beer (to 95? a pint from 91?) as well as those of wine, whisky, cigarettes, automobiles and gasoline, which costs $2.42 per gal., up from...