Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cousins disagreed with that strategy and walked out. By 1973 the fragmented SR was in bankruptcy and Cousins strode back in. He restored the old formula but not the old form. In 1977 a new investor group took over, and in 1978 Cousins reduced his role to that of columnist...
...advertising front with a poll of "worldclass sailors" that claimed to show overwhelming preference for its shoe. Crowed the headline: 151 WORLD-CLASS SAILORS PROVE SPERRY TOPSIDER IS LOSING ITS GRIP. Meanwhile, Timberland is happily handing out reprints of a Playboy "Fashion Guide" interview in which Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., a transatlantic sailor who always tries to put his right foot forward, calls Timberland's product "the world's most comfortable shoe." To prove that Timberland's popularity cuts across political lines, the accompanying letter notes that "Senator Kennedy recently requested a pair of Timberland...
Reagan occasionally socializes with a few sympathetic print journalists and is not vengeful toward others. He has had conservative Columnist George F. Will in to lunch alone twice, and Columnist Patrick Buchanan once. He has gone to dinner at the home of Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., who many right-wingers think hovers over Washington on a broom...
...calorie beer boils down to less brew for the money. Not only do most light brands carry premium-brand prices, they contain less grain and more water. In spite of the dilution, such beers are not all that much lower in calorie content than normal beers. Observes newspaper Beer Columnist Steve Byers of the Milwaukee Journal: "The calorie difference between a light beer and a premium beer is five potato chips. Why get a worse taste and flat beer for five potato chips...
...nation's ten smallest boosted their sales. Too insignificant to get pushed around much by bigger brands, they concentrate on developing products with a unique taste and appeal. Among the best: Stevens Point Brewery of Stevens Point, Wis., which makes what a tasting panel assembled by Chicago Newspaper Columnist Mike Royko called the finest beer brewed in America; Leinenkugel of Chippewa Falls, Wis., which has been operated by the Leinenkugel family for 115 years; and Geyer Bros, of Frankenmuth, Mich., which last year turned a profit by brewing and selling a mere 4,500 bbl. of beer...