Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...same way we now talk about the environment or taxation." He pushed hard, and successfully, to reform Labor's internal structure. He highlighted growing social alienation and suggested approaches to community-building. When Latham spouted Third Way ideas, Tanner dissed them as empty pragmatism: "It is mere cocktail politics; pour two nips of market forces, throw in a few platitudes, add a dash of socialism and stir vigorously...
Thanks in part to an explosion of new flavored vodkas, U.S. consumption of the liquor has been on a steady rise over the past decade. At the same time, gin seems to have disappeared from the cocktail menu. Last year Americans drank nearly four times as much vodka as gin. To reverse the trend, some distillers have come up with a novel solution: make their drink taste less like gin. By lightening up on the juniper and amping up other flavors, they hope to make gin more palatable for a new generation--and woo vodka drinkers. Some of the best...
...fund-raiser—the last one that Kerry will attend before the election—required a minimum donation of $1,000 to attend the pre-dinner cocktail reception and $5,000 to attend the entire program...
...Costa Rican red-backed squirrel monkey, says an industry-wide drive is needed to prevent further environmental destruction. In Manuel Antonio, the organization has the support of 28 businesses that fund conservation and reforestation programs. Thanks to the efforts of some forward-thinking hoteliers, for travelers who relish a cocktail by the pool, conservation could not get any easier...
...Single Estate's birth, several years in the making, is a textbook example of how to launch a "superpremium" vodka. Beginning in the mid-'90s with Belvedere and Grey Goose, superpremiums have transformed vodka's image from a flavorless mixer into an "affordable luxury" that costs only $15 a cocktail...