Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...American "business casual" dress code suited to this Southeastern resort. Most just removed their ties. So while Bush often looked ready to play golf, the others seemed like traveling executives settling in for cocktail hour. Food was a preferred topic, as Chirac complimented Bush on the cheeseburger he'd been served, and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi praised the Italians, sort of. "I love Italy! Berlusconi! Spaghetti!" he said, waving his arms. The place was hungry for good humor. - By John F. Dickerson Second Time Lucky? POLAND President Aleksander Kwasniewski nominated the leftist former Finance Minister Marek Belka as Prime...
About 5% of our corn is refined to high-fructose corn syrup, which is cheaper, sweeter and, because it is a liquid, easier to transport and mix into foods than sugar. Beverage and food manufacturers see that low price as a signal to use the high-fructose cocktail in virtually everything, substituting it for more nutritious ingredients--not just for sugar--in peanut butter, fruit juices and spaghetti sauce...
...should be used to prizes by now. His 2002 Bowling for Columbine earned $58 million worldwide and an Oscar nod that Moore turned into a decisive media event when, in his acceptance speech, he scolded the President for invading Iraq. So Cannes was primed for his latest movie Molotov cocktail. Its first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got total team news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction as Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release the film, paced nearby...
...from Flint, Michigan, who's usually seen in a scruffy beard and duck-hunter couture, was prowling the Riviera in a tuxedo jacket and baggy black trousers, and this time the game he was aiming at was George W. Bush. Cannes was primed for Moore's latest movie Molotov cocktail, Fahrenheit 9/11, long before it won the coveted Palme D'Or award on Saturday evening. The film's first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got blanket news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction. Meanwhile, Miramax Films...
...Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. The worst-case scenario, he says, is the simultaneous occurrence of higher oil prices, higher U.S. interest rates, lagging growth in Europe-plus a hard landing in China. "If you put all of these things together, that would be a cocktail that could be hard to absorb," he says, quickly adding that he sees it as a "low-probability event." But by itself, China "is not No. 1 on the list of risks to the global recovery." The world may be experimenting with China as a trading partner...