Word: cognac
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...Food & Drink" supplement ran to 48 glossy pages, bubbling with four-color national liquor ads and articles on such pressing concerns as "Fighting the Gourmet Blues" and "A Consumer Guide to Cognac." An insert in the Sunday New York Times? A section in Gourmet magazine? No, just a little light reading from that old, radical, worker-owned collective in Boston, the Real Paper...
...grandson of brandy makers from the town of Cognac, Monnet learned as a youth that masterworks are not accomplished by shortcuts. He deftly summed up this truth: "The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to waitman proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side." He began his career as a globetrotting salesman for the family's distillery. Witnessing the chaos and waste of World War I convinced him of the need for international cooperation. By 1916 Monnet had become France's representative in London...
...four years of hard work, bargaining and cajoling for the dean. Now Rosovsky is King of the Hill, exulting in the moment of triumph, the questioning by the major newspaper reporters, the clicking of the shutters. President Bok enters and rewards Rosovsky with a bottle of his favorite cognac; the smile broadens around the ever-present pipe. In a few minutes the press conference is over, and the dean, dangling a keychain with an applecore charm, heads off for home, talking about taking "a bath in champagne." It is the high point in a long and trying year for Henry...
...Omega watch has jumped $100, to $495. Wholesale jewelry prices, pushed up by rising gold prices as the dollar has waned, were up 30% last month. In the Washington, D.C., area, half a gallon of Johnnie Walker Red Label Scotch is up $1, as is a fifth of Courvoisier cognac; wine importers have said that price increases are coming...
...press conference after the Faculty vote, Rosovsky, in between sips of RemyMartin cognac presented to him by President Bok, mentioned that he first discussed reforming the General Education program with Bok in 1971. At the time Bok was dean of the Law School, and Rosovsky was chairman of the Economics Department...