Word: distributor
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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...
Eight thousand newspapers will be delivered this morning, according to Hope Spruance, general manager of Harvard Student Agencies (HSA), the newsmagazine's distributor...
...since World War II. The Army National Guard has met its authorized strength for the past three years. Applications for admission to the three service academies rose by 59% between 1980 and 1984. Old Glory is having a heyday too. The Art Flag Co. of Manhattan, a major national distributor, reports a sales increase of 30% this year. During the Olympics, a Los Angeles County inventor was awarded a patent for his electric flag-waving machine. Ridiculous, maybe, but there is also the sublime. In San Francisco last July 2, as a pair of middle-aged bohemians left the Flag...
...certainly not all his doing. He is an Italian American who owns real estate in New York's Little Italy; questions about any possible underworld ties are constantly asked, as if such a connection were inevitable. Even the most tenuous bits of information made huge, unfair headlines: a pornography distributor is a tenant in one Zaccaro building; a reputed mobster rents an apartment in a building Zaccaro inherited from his father 13 years ago and immediately sold; an imprisoned swindler once owned a building that Zaccaro managed. TIME learned that U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani asked Zaccaro to his office last...
...England for a quarter of a century; of a heart attack; in Providence. Despite more than 40 arrests and 18 convictions for crimes including bootlegging, armed robbery, auto theft, and breaking and entering, the Massachusetts-born Patriarca always denied that he was anything but a legitimate vending-machine distributor. Indicted in 1980 and 1981 on charges of labor racketeering and ordering the execution of two underworld figures, he never stood trial because of poor health...