Word: gins
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...gesture--after all, what did he have to lose? Olmert was skeptical: "Even if [I] have something in mind that might be headlined as dramatic, it will be labeled as spin," he said. But later, when I asked him about the Saudi initiative, he made a creaky effort to gin up a headline: "If I had an opportunity to sit down with King Abdullah, which I have not, he would be very surprised by what...
...blogger who has had it with the government bankrupting her generation to support legions of increasingly long-lived baby boomers. "Someone my age will have to spend their entire life paying unfair taxes," she rants, "just so the Boomers can hit the golf course at 62 and drink gin and tonics until they're 90. What happened to the American idea of leaving your kids better off than you were...
...spread to Shanghai, at a time when the "Paris of the East" was largely under the control of Western powers. With close to 4 million inhabitants, 1930s Shanghai was the fifth-largest city in the world and the most cosmopolitan place in China. To reflect the era's gin-and-jazz culture, Shanghai's architects turned their backs on the pompous colonial edifices of yesteryear and embraced the modern sophistication of Art Deco. It was a prolific but short-lived phenomenon. When Mao Zedong's communists seized control of the country in 1949, the clampdown on Shanghai's foreign influences...
...midweek it was apparent that the inquiry was focusing on a series of unusual stock transactions that had surrounded a bitter takeover fight earlier this year for control of the Distillers Company, makers of Gordon's Gin and Johnnie Walker scotch. Two companies were bidding for Distillers, Guinness and a supermarket chain called the Argyll Group. Both bidders had offered Distillers' shareholders a mix of stock and cash. But shortly before the contest was over, a sudden and mysterious flurry of trading raised the value of Guinness's stock while lowering Argyll's. Its offer thus sweetened, the giant brewery...
...Number of employees that the government of Libya plans to lay off to trim the budget and gin up private enterprise...