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...small fee: red wine, white wine (cheapo California vintages), domestic beer, imported beer, vodka, gin, rum, Bailey's, Kahlua, Tequila, whiskey, bourbon, cognac, brandy...
...newspaper La Opinion, has more than tripled, to $224 million. Immigrants fly back and call home often, so they are heavy users of airlines and long- distance telephone services. Asians make three times as many overseas calls as the average U.S. consumer. Chinese Americans drink nearly twice as much Cognac per person as the general population. Koreans eat more Spam than any other ethnic group...
...better consumer-goods managers are using these facts to advantage. Distillers Remy Martin and Courvoisier regularly run Mandarin- and Cantonese- dialect Cognac ads in Chinese newspapers and magazines. And meat packer Hormel & Co. designed some of Spam's in-store promotional displays in Korean. Others have stumbled. A New York Life Insurance Co. ad designed to appeal to Koreans failed miserably because it used a Chinese model. Citibank had to drop a New Year's holiday TV ad targeted at Chinese consumers after viewers complained about the sexual innuendo of corks popping out of champagne bottles. The bank replaced...
...when he was assigned to the house in the first year housing lottery, a friend says. Known by nickname "Chaz," Lee, friends say, kept a high Eliot House residents say he would test drive sports cars and host gatherings in the common room where students smoked cigars and consumed cognac in large quantities...
Consequently, it was Miyazawa who made the key concession that led to the summit's greatest achievement. When Miyazawa overruled his Finance Ministry to announce that Japan would eliminate tariffs on "brown" liquors such as whiskey and Cognac, all the pieces fell into place. The seven signed off on the greatest tariff reductions ever achieved through international agreement. In addition to those on some liquors, tariffs will be wiped out on pharmaceuticals, construction equipment, medical equipment, steel and beer. ("Does this mean I get a better price for Molson's back in Washington?" Clinton joked to an aide. Probably...