Word: beers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, Tatyana replies that she always drinks it because she "finds it refreshing" when she dances. "Also," she adds, "When I drink Hooch, I can drive home, because it has less alcohol." When reminded that the label reads, "4.7% alcohol"--about the same as a bottle of beer--all "Hooch Girls" shook their heads vigorously from side to side. "No, it has less alcohol, because it is a natural product," one said. "It's fresh," added Igor, the one man among them, as if that settled the dispute. Igor, denying that Hooch is just a "women's drink," said that...
However, some spirited competitors have arrived in post-Soviet Russia to challenge vodka's historic supremacy. Beer distillers from around the world are trying to pry open what they see as an extremely lucrative market for alcohol. Companies like BBH, owner of Russia's most popular national beer, Baltika, and Efes are building $100 million breweries in Moscow and St. Petersburg to capitalize on a beer-thirsty market. This situation is quite a change for Russain beer-drinkers of the cold-war era, who were used to brews containing "water, topped up with detergent to create the impression of beer...
...does urinating on the country's second-most photographed statue seem like such a bright idea? As any one of these fine Harvard men might say, it isn't the beer talking--it's tradition. One expects that Harvard College, a world-wide symbol of higher learning might have its share of traditions heaped with pomp and circumstance, like the regalia of Commencement or the Harvard-Yale football game. But what about unofficial traditions, equally important to every undergrad...
Public consumption of alcohol--while fully clothed--came in a distant second among those polled for a new Harvard tradition. Kate S. Jackson '01 called for students to "drink a can of beer in Annenberg." One senior, remaining anonymous to avoid possible self-incrimination later this semester, says, "Everyone should take a final drunk...
...user-friendly tradition with the most potential to catch on had nothing to do with nudity, beer or the Charles. Justin Pasquariello '01 suggests that first-years "catapult tofu with a spoon from either balcony of Annenberg onto someone below. But, it doesn't count unless you hit someone...