Word: gins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invalid. "I want to be able to draw the line myself," he said on TV. Three days later, he was put to death by a doctor. "His last evening at home was so cozy," his wife said. "Frans gave himself another quarter of an hour: 'One last gin and tonic and a cigarette, then we'll get down to work...
...many packaged-goods makers would get excited over a 0.3% increase in sales, but for the liquor industry it's something to celebrate, albeit quietly. Yes, the figures say Americans increased consumption of whiskey, gin and other distilled spirits ever so slightly last year, breaking a 15-year decline. Some 135 million cases of the stuff went down, according to Impact, an industry trade journal. "With the economy being fairly buoyant, people are in a position to indulge themselves more," says Jamie Prusak, vice president of Schieffelin & Somerset, a liquor distributor. The increase also reflects--note all those lighted cigars...
...With a mixture of shock and gratitude, Roby residents learned that 39 of their own had won more than $1 million each in the Texas state lottery. They belonged to a pool of 43 people organized by Peggy Dickson, 48, a bookkeeper at the town's cotton gin. Each wagered $10, enabling the pool to buy 430 tickets. The one that won paid $46.7 million--that's $54,255.81 a person each year for the next 20 years, or roughly $40,000 after taxes. Dickson had never before organized such a lottery syndicate, and many of its participants had never...
...loan from my dad. My husband was already looking around for other work." Manuel Valdez, 43, and his wife Susie, 37, were close to losing Susie's Fish & Grill, which the couple sank their life savings into only five months before. Manuel, who had stopped by the cotton gin (owned by the Terrys, of course) for a cup of coffee and joined the lottery pool on a lark, says they could not have held out much longer. "This month I really didn't even want to come to work," he says. "I opened the checkbook, and we were down...
...North Koreans were tracked down and killed in separate clashes the next day. One intruder, however, was captured alive. Under interrogation, Lee Kwang Soo at first refused to talk, saying his family in the North would suffer for it. Then, after downing a few drinks of soju, the local gin, he became voluble but also contradictory. According to his latest account, Lee was a member of the crew of the sub, which left North Korean waters on Sept. 14 with seven infiltrators and 19 crew. Their mission, he says, was to spy on an airport, radar installations and civilian preparedness...