Word: beers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flood of hard-liquor ads," fumed Democratic Congressman Joseph Kennedy II of Massachusetts, who is well aware that his family's fortune was fortified with liquor profits. He has introduced a bill that would not only ban TV ads for hard liquor but also restrict those for beer and wine. "When advertising shows the way to get a pretty girl or guy is to suck down a brew," he says, "we want to take it off the air except after 10 p.m." President Clinton favors continuing the ad ban but has not endorsed Kennedy's politically riskier bill...
...heaven: spend a few bucks on an incendiary TV spot, then let the media spread the word. The industry needs the lift: sales of cases of distilled spirits, according to M. Shanken Communications, shrank from 190 million in 1980 to 135 million in 1995--a drop of 29%. Beer and wine marketers, meanwhile, exploiting the mistaken perception that their products contain less alcohol than distilled spirits, used such icons as Spuds MacKenzie and the Swedish Bikini Team to boost sales by even more than the distillers lost...
...summer activity in which at least 50 percent of Harvard students participate at some point or another, though the city may vary to either Boston or Washington. You know the deal--low or no bucks for the possibility of perks, one of which is the daily Happy Hour where beer costs two dollars per bottle and everyone gets, well, happy...
...these Happy Hour gatherings, I recalled my last nights in Cambridge one month ago. After finals, the beer was no less plentiful than it is at Happy Hour, though the Sam Adams cost a bit more than what is on tap at Burrito Bar down on Church Street...
...issue of the journal Nature, the narrow-necked jar dates to between 5400 B.C. and 5000 B.C., making the stuff inside the oldest wine ever found--by at least 2,000 years. In 1993 a team led by McGovern found the next oldest wine, along with the oldest-known beer...