Word: gins
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Throughout the hotel, the furnishing details ooze luxury - even the elevators, which are lined with black American walnut and leather. The purple-themed Skybar has a slinky after-dark appeal (try the Aviator Sling: gin, parfait amour, cranberry and lime juice), while the Brasserie is all cream-leather seating and walnut finishes. It's here that chef Allan Pickett (formerly at Galvin Bistrot de Luxe in London) makes use of local produce to create a tempting take-off menu: the piquant steak tartare is already proving a runaway success. And on the walls, black-and-white photos of Hollywood stars...
...program is meant to gin up liquidity for corporate credit unions by enticing retail credit unions to deposit more of their money there, both by guaranteeing deposits and offering low-cost loans. Retail credit unions, also charmingly called natural-person credit unions, have been finding other places to stash funds as they've grown concerned about the stability of corporates. At the end of September, retail credit unions had $35.1 billion invested in corporate credit unions, down from $37.9 billion at the beginning of the year, according to the NCUA. Over that same period, total retail investments grew from...
When methadone was first proposed for the treatment of heroin addiction, it sounded like a pointless gambit - sort of like substituting vodka for gin. That's enabling addicts, critics said, not helping them...
...supporters now that the more liberal Barack Obama is about to replace Chávez's conservative archenemy, George W. Bush. "Chávez is envisioning tougher times ahead," says John Walsh, a Venezuela expert at the Washington Office on Latin America, an independent think tank. "In order to gin up his base, he decided he better do this now rather than later, while he can still muster a majority of the vote. He knows that time may not be on his side...
...Bugatti Veyron As a piece of engineering ... it's like Concorde. Trying to get people to fly at twice the speed of sound while sipping a gin and tonic is immensely difficult. The Bugatti is the same sort of deal...