Word: benson
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...Clarke, CEO of Infinite Spirits, who, together with co-founders Mark Bozzini and master distiller Pat Couteaux, spent two years researching and experimenting with ingredients before introducing the $30-a-bottle vodka in 2003. Distilled in a six-column continuous still in the retrofitted Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. in Benson, Minn.--using wheat and rye grown by nearby farmers--Shakers' four flavors of vodka racked up about $4 million in sales in 17 states in 2004. Now the brand is going national. "It's a real cracker of a spirit," says F. Paul Pacult, editor of the Spirit Journal...
Philip Morris USA, maker of well-known brands Marlboro, Benson & Hedges, and Parliament, declined to comment on Monday...
...Kris Benson, meanwhile, established himself this winter as one of the most overpaid pitchers in recent memory, but the Mets can be excused one mishap. Benson is about as average as pitchers can be, sporting a career record of 47-53 and an ERA of 4.28, slightly better than the NL average of 4.41 over that span. He didn’t deserve $22.5 million, but will still help the club...
Calling his manager, who had once represented Whitaker, Thompson was able to secure a second, more favorable audition. The second time around, final casting for the role of Fat Albert came down to Thompson and Omar Benson Miller (8 Mile, Sorority Boys), with the part eventually going to the latter. Thompson explains that Fat Albert is the biggest and tallest member of his gang, and that Miller, who stands at 6’5”, is easily the larger...
...next play, Edwards fumbled on an end-around at the Harvard 22-yard line. The ecstatic Tigers recovered the ball and tailback Brandan Benson punched it in two plays later for a 14-3 lead...