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...foreign currency rating, a move that would help cut borrowing costs. He says just getting essential data out of officials used to be difficult. Now Byrne has the Deputy Finance Minister's home phone number and spent some time during his trip knocking back shots of fiery soju liquor with him. "We didn't used to have dinner with the Finance Minister," he says. "Now it's routine...
...read that 600-page monstrosity of incomprehensible blather. Response paper? Maybe next week. Morning lecture? Yeeeeah, maybe I’ll catch it when it gets released on video. Afternoon lecture? Sorry, it might interfere with my lunch, mid-afternoon nap, late-afternoon snack and/or later-afternoon malt liquor-tasting...
...parents’ weekends as in so many other ways, the College has turned its back on the sophomore class. The most for which we can ask is a modicum of sympathy from the other classes. Well then, juniors, before you leave your parents for the library or the liquor store this weekend, consider first asking them to adopt an orphaned sophomore for the evening. The kindness might be appreciated more than you would care to remember...
...other side of the debate, spokespeople for America's largest liquor companies say CASA's numbers just don't add up. Frank Coleman, speaking for the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calls the study's results "flat-out wrong," according to the Associated Press. To achieve the numbers presented in the CASA report, Coleman claims, every American teenager who drinks would be obliged to consume 120 drinks per month. Phil Lynch, representing Jack Daniels Whiskey, was more blunt with the AP. "It looks like CASA has adopted Enron's accounting practices...
...enforced age limits on drinking. Others, including CASA, place much of the blame on advertisers. Critics charge that sweet, crayon-hued drinks in ads are designed specifically to nab young drinkers. CASA is particularly unhappy with NBC, the only network to break the 50-year voluntary ban on running liquor ads on television...