Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These nascent signs of change on the landscape of apartheid have been a long time coming. In the wake of the bloody 1976 uprising in the sprawling township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, angry young radicals trashed many black businesses, along with government-owned liquor stores and beer halls, as symbols of white oppression. At that time they could find relatively few such targets, since the law impeded black ownership of homes and businesses in urban areas. Only gradually were free enterprise and limited schemes for home ownership extended to the townships on the basis of 99-year leases. In April...
...obedient to routine. Dukakis sleeps from midnight to 5:30. Only occasionally does he take a glass of white wine. For years union leaders at Labor Day picnics pressured him to stand holding a glass of beer in his hand, but the Governor declined. Aides do not smoke around him. Language is mostly cleaned up in deference to his sense of propriety. There is only small comic relief around Dukakis. He has little sense of irony, and his jokes are as forced in private as on the stump. Says a Dukakis Cabinet officer: "Don't get the idea we hang...
...Raise beer and wine taxes. The tax on wine is only 5% of what it is on hard liquor, while the tax on beer is 25%. Both could be raised to 50%. The tax on a 750-ml bottle of wine would go from 3 cents to 30 cents and on a six-pack of beer from 16 cents to 32 cents. $3 billion...
...your left" he announced, "is the Labatt's plant. Makes the best beer in Canada. On your right, notice the Marriott hotel. A fine example of modern architecture...
...rent my room to John Kenneth Galbraith. When I changed my wash soon after, I threw every bit of lint in the trash--you never know what teenage social ill she would attribute lint to. If I lived in a house, any house, I wouldn't have to defend beer parties and loud music to an octogenarian...