Word: corking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makers of champagne and its fizz-alikes were to assemble for a party this week, it would be a frothy scene indeed. Their business is enjoying cork-popping growth at a time when liquor, beer and table wines have sluggish or declining revenues. Sparkling-wine sales have bubbled up to $1.7 billion this year, 34% more than in 1983. Exports of French champagne to the U.S. this year grew at the same effervescent pace and exceeded 1 million cases for the first time. With New Year's Eve approaching, France's Moët-Hennessy two weeks...
Last spring, Professor of Irish Studies Sean O Coilean was teaching at the National University of Ireland's College at Cork, introducing students to their country's native heritage. There, he says, "If you say you are in Irish Studies, no one asks...
Harvard's "unrivalled" library and research facilities in his field lured the Cork native across the Atlantic. The University owns most of the important manuscripts of Irish literature, and will acquire all of them eventually, he explains...
Before coming to Cambridge, O Coilean taught and studied at Cork--now, he works in a basement office in Widener Library that he shares with Kelleber, eleventh on a waiting list to get his own Widener office...
...Harvard's smallest departments, the Celtic Department, completed a major turnover in personnel by hiring a specialist in Irish literature from University College Cork, Ireland...