Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This temperance trend has produced another new competitor called the wine cooler, which combines fruit juice, carbonated water and wine in a drink that is only about 6% alcohol, roughly half as much as traditional vintages. First cococted in 1981 by a Coors beer distributor, the beverage is available in at least 27 brands. Among West Coast producers, California Cooler, the leading firm, ranks just behind the traditional wineries of E. & J. Gallo, Seagram and Almaden in sales...
...Jack Wheeler believes the disputes of the past 20 years permanently affected his peers' sense of citizenship. "The Viet Nam generation was an idealistic bunch of people," he told TIME Washington Correspondent Jay Branegan. "This idealism is fertile ground for a healthy patriotism." By healthy, Wheeler means cooler and more thoughtful. Says he: "I feel once burned, I'm not going to be twice burned. Even though our patriotism is evident, it isn't fully flowered. It's still tentative. The baby boomers, says Wheeler, who is a Republican, "have a sense that life...
Signs of a cooler economy set off a record week on Wall Street
...back in Washington, even after returning the prisoners, Jackson received a much cooler welcome than in the capitals he had just visited. Audacious as ever, he asked to be allowed to brief the President on his trip. Instead, Jackson was shunted off to a debriefing by Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost. State Department Spokesman John Hughes issued a polite but justified scolding: "The tradition has been not to criticize the United States from foreign platforms particularly from countries hostile to the United States." Secretary of State George Shultz pronounced his own verdict on what he called Jackson...
...Russell's championship banners drooped beside three others on a 97° night, the Celtics ran several Lakers and a referee to near exhaustion to win the fifth game going away and take an improbable lead. Larry Bird, the one with the coattails now, strangely found it cooler to run down the floor than to sit and be fanned by preposterous Cornerman M.L. Carr's flapping towels. Bird scored 34 points and gathered 17 rebounds...