Word: fermentations
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...million liquor drinkers. Now, some of the rules are being relaxed, partly to enable domestic distillers to meet growing foreign competition. As a result of decisions by the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division of the Internal Revenue Service, the American liquor business is in its greatest period of ferment since repeal...
...with two different (and conflicting) populist politicians in the imaginary country of Elderado. The narrative is of course based on familiar patterns in Brazilian politics in which fascist elites crush slightly less-fascist elites, manipulating and mystifying the masses, who remain politically blind and passive participants, despite their spiritual ferment, their extreme hunger and suffering...
...eerie tranquillity will last is a matter of conjecture. Many administrators fear a return of unrest in the spring, when youthful exuberances always blossom anew. Even if there is no further trouble, campus quiet is not synonymous with campus health. Oases for ideas, universities should be places of ferment. The violence of the past few years was, of course, unacceptable, but the student movement has called the nation's attention to some of its weaknesses?a hidebound educational establishment, inequitable draft laws, unrepresentative political procedures, to mention some of the most legitimate targets of protest. Despite the new calm...
...party caucus defeated several moves: to 1) set an age limit of 70 for committee chairmen; 2) restrict them to eight years of service; 3) elect a Northern liberal instead of a Southern conservative to the Ways and Means Committee; 4) oust one incumbent chairman. Yet the ferment itself indicated the changing tone in the tradition-minded House of Representatives; the seniority system is no longer sacrosanct...
...rising about 11% this year, but around campuses sales are barely holding their own, despite the increasing college population. The tastes of malt and marijuana, it seems, just do not mingle well. Instead, youths seeking to prolong their highs have been turning to a new kind of campus ferment. They are buying cheap, sweet wines, especially two Gallo brands: Ripple and Boone's Farm Apple. Nude swimmers at July's Goose Lake Rock Festival in Jackson, Mich., appreciatively christened one of the beaches they used "Ripple Beach...