Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen cities and towns in the Middle East and Western Europe. And it occurred only shortly before Israel's national unity government, headed by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, quietly began withdrawing the last army units from Lebanon, thereby ending after three years a war that has borne bitter fruit for Israel...
...Arlington, Texas, replaced its traditional happy-hour offer with a 24-foot- long buffet stacked with Kung Pao chicken, Szechwan fish and egg rolls to keep customers on their stools. In front of the Long Beach Hyatt Regency hotel flies a flag emblazoned with a giant banana: the "fruit of the month" served at the hotel's jam-packed juice bar. "We're discouraging all- you-can-drink offers and free shooters," says Jack Burk, vice president of public relations for the hotel chain. "The emphasis is on social occasions and lower-proof drinks...
...meet in health spas, but many still play the dating game in bars and clubs. A list of their favorite drinks reads like a dessert menu from the 1950s. At 104 TGI Friday's around the country, for instance, it is the pineapple fling (lime Calistoga water and fruit juices); at the Hyatt hotel in San Francisco it is "Remember the Oreo" (creme de cacao, ice cream and Oreo cookies). For guys, it is no longer considered wimpy to order a light beer. Says a Friday's vice president, Gregory Dollarhyde: "There's reverse psychology at work. You're going...
...alcohol for any of us." Washington Reporter Susan Schindehette also finds abstemiousness among her sources. "It is the rare interviewee these days who asks for a couple of Scotches over lunch," she says. Reporter-Researcher Elizabeth Rudulph tested several exotic new nonalcoholic tipples like Boncontent, a concoction of kiwi fruit and mineral water, and orange-flavored Perrier, as well as countless bottles of water. Concludes Rudulph: "Still water is the best thirst quencher, and flavored water is better for you than soft drinks...
...last year after four years in Central America. "The newspapers were filled with articles on tougher drunken-driving legislation," he says. "Roadblocks that I equated with military searches for antigovernment guerrillas were being used by U.S. police to catch violators. And everyone was drinking wine, mineral water and fruit juices...