Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They could throw me out too. I figured that was a good test...
...brews sound almost too good to be true: they have about the same body and alcohol level (up to 5%) of regular premiums but with less sugar and, some claim, the low caloric content of light beers. Get ready to hear a whole lot more about "dry beers," which are being introduced in U.S. bars, restaurants and supermarkets. After only two months of testing in five regional markets, St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, Inc., the nation's biggest brewer, is so enthusiastic about its version of the product -- Michelob Dry -- that it is launching it with the industry's biggest...
...second reference to the free- trade pact in a long-planned speech on global trade -- the President called the accord "an example of cooperation at its best" -- Turner described Reagan's words as a "major breach of courtesy between the two nations" and castigated Mulroney for getting "his good friend at head office, Ronald Reagan, to help him do a job he can't complete himself." Again and again, Turner hammered at his main theme: "Mr. Mulroney wants to turn us into the 51st state...
Some deals have fallen short of their fanfare. KKR hailed the purchase of Beatrice as the "deal of the century," but wound up getting stuck with businesses that have not yet found buyers. "Beatrice was overadvertised as a spectacular deal when it was really just a good one," said one investor. "Everybody's making money; they're just not making as much money as they thought they would, or as fast as they could...
American business is built on a rock of lawfulness and trust between companies and those who hold a stake in them. But when avarice grows out of proportion, cracks start to appear in the foundation. "Greed can be good," says M.I.T.'s Modigliani, when it spurs profitable and productive growth. "But it can also be bad," he warns, when it outpaces all other considerations...