Word: cognac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Community loomed larger than ever. In Palm Springs, Calif., where President Reagan was vacationing, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter announced last week that the Administration was prepared to slam the door by Jan. 30 on more than $400 million worth of West European imports, including Italian white wine, French cognac and British gin. The Europeans came right back with threatened new barriers against such U.S. products as corn-gluten feed, soy cakes, rice and almonds. Yeutter spoke darkly of possible "major disruptions in international trade." In Paris, a French trade minister warned that Europe would respond "eye for eye, tooth...
...welfare payments. Soon after, he was arrested in his newly purchased Buick Skylark along with two passengers, one of whom had just sold 8 oz. of cocaine to an undercover narcotics agent. Facing narcotics and firearm charges, Garrett must stand trial next month for allegedly stealing two bottles of cognac from a liquor store. The unlucky winner did manage to make bail by pledging $80,000 as security -- from his future lottery payments...
Come to Laurenland, the images whisper, where fantasy and finery go together like hand in well-stitched glove. Watch polo matches in Palm Beach, trim in a crested blazer and trousers of crisp linen. Sip cognac by the fireplace of a Sun Valley, chalet, snug under a brightly colored Navajo blanket and clad in a Nordic apres-ski sweater and wool twill slacks. Go on safari in Kenya wearing a bush jacket and khaki shorts that would do justice to Robert Redford in Out of Africa. Sip tea at London's Connaught Hotel, draped to perfection in a chalk-stripe...
...dealers flourish, albeit rather more discreetly than ten years ago. North and South, Coca-Cola is for sale, but the black market stalls of Ho Chi Minh City are packed with foreign goods: Spam and Tang, Zest and Lux, A&W root beer and Del Monte prunes, Remy Martin cognac, Wilson tennis racquets and balls, Japanese TVs and calculators. Vietnamese are allowed to receive up to four packages each year from friends or kin abroad. Some families subsist exclusively from the sale of such foreign goods...
...Sunday evening, June 4, 1967, I was with Fedorenko at Glen Cove. Over a glass of cognac we discussed the growing tensions in the Middle East. About 4 a.m. the next morning we got word that war had broken out between Egypt and Israel. Fedorenko said we should return to the Soviet mission immediately for instructions from Moscow...