Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Ponto's death, virtually every company has strengthened its security, hired additional guards and installed monitoring cameras. Agencies providing bodyguards for hire, and other private security services, are doing brisk business. Complained one official: "I can't drink a beer without security men. I can't go to the toilet without security men. My family life is ruined. And I can't have a relationship with another woman without security men." A Bavarian tycoon grumbled that the elaborate alarm system hastily installed in his house is forever going off, "sending the two resident guards running...
...like City Hall Plaza, where secretaries and bureaucrats now take their brown-bag lunches. Perhaps, like Robert Frost's pilgrim in Directive ("Back out of all this now too much for us"), the city folk find in their new fountains something of that hidden spring, where they can "drink and be whole again beyond confusion...
Durrell loves the poetic effusion, what he calls "romancing"-but in an amiable way, like a man on his third drink who suddenly falls in love with a phrase. Some times he treats the past with a lovely disrespect. At the catacombs in Syracuse, 'there was an unhealthy-looking monk on duty at the picture-postcard stall. He looked as if he had just been disinterred himself." As for the catacombs, "a coal mine would have offered the same spectacle, really...
Coke officials have no objection to turning majority ownership of their Indian subsidiary over to Indians. But they insist that Coke must retain firm control of the quality of drink produced and, above all, the syrup-making secrets. The original Coke formula, so goes company gossip, is kept in a vault in a Georgia bank and is known to no more than ten people in the world. The formula contains an ingredient called 7X, which no one has managed to duplicate. The Indian government's view is that the 1973 law obliges all foreign-owned companies-European as well...
Coke does not stand to lose a lot even if it is kicked out of India. Coke production in India has almost stopped anyway because the government has held up renewal of the company's license to import ingredients for the drink. Indian sales accounted for only one-fifth of 1% of the company's $3.1 billion worldwide revenues last year. Just in case Coke does leave, Indian researchers have come up with a substitute that they hope will be commercially exploited, keep bottling plants running and employment up. But the copied Coke may not work. India...