Word: gal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growers boosted wine-grape acreage by 26%, to 363,000. Nearly 100 new wineries took root between 1978 and 1982 in the Napa Valley and adjoining Sonoma County. But sales, which had grown by an average 6% annually during the 1970s, suddenly flattened in 1982 at about 360 million gal., and have grown only marginally since then. Growers who planted their vines in anticipation of blossoming demand are finding a market that has shriveled like a raisin. Thompson seedless grapes, a basic variety that fetched $200 per ton in 1981, now sell for as low as $50. For many farmers...
...boosted their share of the American market this year to more than 25%, up from 13% in 1975. Italy, the biggest seller to the U.S., uncorked the low-price segment with fruity, fizzy Lambruscos like Riunite and dry soaves like Folonari. Italy's shipments increased from 3.7 million gal. in 1970 to 69 million last year...
...enough to cause a pimple. But Philip Michael Thomas, 36, and Don Johnson, 36, stars of the new TV show Miami Vice, risked complexion and cavities to do their part at a two-day chocoholics' festival. The pair took turns on a spring-loaded seat over a 400-gal. vat of chocolate syrup, while a bevy of young girls lobbed baseballs at the target for $3 a pop. After three splashdowns each in the high-calorie goo, the men were just too delicious for the girls to resist. Recalls Thomas: "They licked the chocolate off my hairy chest...
Airlines, chemical manufacturers and other heavy petroleum users will benefit most from the falling prices. Consumers, too, will feel an impact. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. has dropped to $1.18 per gal. from $1.25 a year ago, and is likely to fall further. The surge in supply, though, could put a sharp kink in the profits of U.S. oil companies. Last week Frank Kneuttel, of the Gintel energy-research group, warned clients away from energy stocks. Said he: "The price is like a snowball coming downhill without a mogul to stop it." Falling prices will also hurt...
...took steps to cut the amount of lead used in gasoline, it failed to reckon with the orneriness of American motorists. Car owners have been illegally filling an estimated 13% of the no-lead vehicles on the road with leaded gas, which costs an average of 7? per gal. less than the unleaded variety. Last week the EPA fought back. It proposed rules that would slash the amount of lead in leaded gasoline by 91%, starting...