Word: liquor
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...There is no reason to think that students faced with cans and hard liquor will favor the hard stuff while the same students faced with kegs and hard liquor would go for the beer,” Lewis wrote...
...might not be allowed to walk up to House U-Hauls and grab a frosty brew or a cup of some Tropicana Twister-and-rum concoction. Instead, they’ll just binge drink in their rooms at 10 a.m., or carry around a flask full of some noxious liquor that even a homeless alcoholic wouldn’t drink...
What these restrictions will do is limit the amount of “soft” alcoholic beverages consumed at the tailgate even further, because underage fans will refrain from carrying around easily distinguishable cans and bottles of beer in favor of more easily concealable liquor. From an alcohol poisoning standpoint, that is a lethal blow, due to the relatively diluted nature of beer compared to hard alcohol. With the former, it takes a very concerted effort to become dangerously intoxicated, but with the latter, a simple miscalculation can punch your ticket...
...Chaldean Assyrians (Eastern-rite Catholics who recognize the Pope's authority); Assyrians, who form an independent church; Syrian Catholics; and Armenian Catholics. Under Saddam, Christians coexisted more or less amicably with the Muslim majority. Easter services were broadcast on state television, and Christians were allowed to own and operate liquor stores...
Thanks in part to an explosion of new flavored vodkas, U.S. consumption of the liquor has been on a steady rise over the past decade. At the same time, gin seems to have disappeared from the cocktail menu. Last year Americans drank nearly four times as much vodka as gin. To reverse the trend, some distillers have come up with a novel solution: make their drink taste less like gin. By lightening up on the juniper and amping up other flavors, they hope to make gin more palatable for a new generation--and woo vodka drinkers. Some of the best...