Word: gals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dolce Confectioners in suburban Los Angeles, which makes Robin Rose ice cream. Her experience shows how people's views are shaped by the price hikes that affect them. Rose watched the wild black raspberries that give tang to her bestselling raspberry chocolate truffle flavor zoom from $31 per gal. to $107.50 per gal. after last year's harsh winter nearly destroyed the crop. To recover the extra cost, she tacks a 25? surcharge onto each scoop of the ice cream. Says Rose, a graduate of the University of Chicago Business School and a former student of Nobel-prizewinning...
...membership committee, volunteered that Henry's Hideaway had had to evict only one drunk in the six months it has been open. "He's probably here. I'll point him out. Well, I guess he isn't. He's usually hanging all over that gal there in the back...
Taken alone, last week's price cuts will have little impact on fuel prices in the U.S. But if they force OPEC to cut its benchmark Arab Light by about $1.50, to $27.50, gasoline prices in the U.S. could fall by about 30 per gal. Lower energy prices would spark more economic growth. But a fall in oil revenue would aggravate the problems of such countries as Mexico and Venezuela, which depend largely on oil income to pay their enormous foreign debts. Their trouble could extend to the dozens of U.S. banks that hold Latin American loans...
That kind of drop would be very good news to homeowners as the weather gets colder. Last winter the price of home heating oil jumped by about 100 per gal. in two months, to $1.17, when a series of cold snaps hit the U.S. But if this winter is normal, a decline in crude prices of $1.50 could bring a 30 drop in heating oil, to $1.02 per gal. Heating-oil users are also benefiting from the fuel's competition with natural gas, which currently is in abundant supply in the U.S. Possibly adding to the gas glut...
...general stagnation in U.S. wine sales. Says Ann Clurman, a social-trends researcher for Yankelovich, Skelly & somewhat." White: The fetish "Wine for has lost fitness, its along status with increased minimum drinking ages and stiffer drunk-driving laws, has stalled U.S. adult per capita wine consumption at about 2.2 gal. annually...