Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Does He Drink? The privacy problem has been intensified by the rise of the computer, the relentless superbrain that stores mind-boggling masses of in formation. Federal agencies have 3.8 billion personal records in 6,753 categories from passport applications to Social Security accounts- an average of 18 files for every citizen. State and local agencies maintain at least as many records, while private organizations store three times the federal total. The nation's largest credit bureau, TRW Credit Data of Anaheim, Calif, keeps records on 55 million people. The biggest private investigator, Atlanta-based Equifax, Inc has files...
...significant tax increase. The house at first agreed and approved a budget with across-the-board spending cuts, no new taxes needed. The senate killed it. Then the house passed a budget that would avoid the cuts by raising new taxes, one of them a lO?-per-gal. soft-drink tax. The senate scuttled that one too. No matter. Thomson announced that he would veto any budget with a soda-pop tax. Furious representatives, saying their work had been done, recessed the house. Thomson called an emergency session for this week...
...writers stayed home last weekend - to eat and drink. Senior Writer Stefan Kanfer, who chronicled the aesthetics of beer, imbibes neither hard liquor nor water - only beer. "If they did an analysis of my blood," he says, "they'd find 10% red corpuscles, 10% white corpuscles and 80% hops and malt." Of the 187 varieties of classic beer, Kanfer has sampled about 100. Says he: "That's not over a weekend or even a year, but over a lifetime of quaffsmanship." Associate Editor Paul Gray, who wrote the junk-food story, made forays last weekend to McDonald...
...harsh, heat-seared desert and mountains populated by roughly 220,000 people, mostly impoverished nomads whose average cash income is less than $50 a year. Djibouti comes to independence, after 115 years of French rule, with only three college graduates, no industry other than a pair of soft-drink plants, no agriculture whatever and an export trade restricted to hides and skins (goats outnumber people by better than 2 to 1). "If it were anywhere else," says an Arab diplomat in Djibouti town (pop. 140,000), "nobody would care about this godforsaken place. But because it is where...
...gathering of beer fanciers, debates can be ignited with the mere mention of such diversity, or even of container styles. There are those who prefer the drink in cans-particularly the easy-opening pop toppers. Consumed from the can, the beer retains its coldness longer, and the rush of bubbles on the palate is accompanied by a pleasant steely feel around the mouth. Others find opening a glass bottle a happy reminder of the 16th century dean of St. Paul's who discovered that beer can be kept for long periods in stoppered bottles. He abandoned a full...