Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partially responsible, since clusters generally hit proud, hard-driving individuals who work under substantial self-imposed stress. Graham has found that most cluster sufferers are similar in appearance, with prominent masculine features and reddened, grainy, deeply furrowed skin. Dilation of blood vessels is also apparently present in clusters. Therefore liquor or a dose of any drug that expands vessels, like nitroglycerin, can trigger or worsen an attack...
...final stop before returning to the U.S.: the duty-free shops at practically every large international airport. The foreign-flight waiting rooms in these terminals are technically international territory, and concessionaires operating in them are not required to charge taxes. Most specialize in heavily taxed items, especially liquor, tobacco, cosmetics and perfume. But at some airports the careful shopper can also pick up excellent buys in cameras, radios, tape recorders, French cashmere sweaters, British woolen yard goods, Swiss watches and leather handbags, to name a few of the more widely available goodies. Some tips on airport emporiums...
...scale, on the other hand, starts at $2.40 per hour for jobs in Cambridge and rises to $2.80 per hour for suburban work. HSA bartenders are guaranteed four hours pay on each job and experienced liquor servers earn an additional 25 cents per hour over the regular wage...
Curiously, the greatest party lovers were the Chinese. Their embassy receptions, awash with plenty of mind-numbing mao-tai liquor, were the most popular social events in Santiago. But the Chinese were always tough-bargaining businessmen. Last week three of them huddled with three Chilean girls in a combination bar-brothel and were told that the price of the action would be $75 each, double the pre-UNCTAD days. The Chinese held a hasty conference and made a decision: they would share one girl...
...only a modest 19 when its founder Frank Gannett died 15 years ago. All but three were concentrated in upstate New York. The Gannett image at the time was that of a celluloid-collar, low-budget exercise in small-city publishing, distinguished mainly by a ban on cigarette and liquor ads that reflected Gannett's personal prohibitions. Then Paul Miller took over as his boss's designated successor and the group took off. Today the Gannett Co., Inc. owns 52 dailies and 14 weeklies, more than any other U.S. chain, and the end of its expansion is nowhere...