Word: liquorous
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...sudden flood of cash than the winners. When Mike Wittkowski of Chicago won $42 million in 1984, he expected, at 26, to keep working as a printing-press foreman. Instead he was hassled by co-workers for holding a job he didn't need. Dismayed, he bought a liquor store and is now his own boss...
...beer half-keg has led dozens of colleges to ban its use in an effort to curb campus alcohol abuse. This year Princeton University banished the container, concluding that underage undergraduates will find it more difficult to purchase the same amount of beer in cans and bottles from local liquor stores. But many Princeton alumni have opposed the ban, explaining in a letter that bottles and cans were "more likely . . . to cause injury" than a plastic...
...Harken began to suffer from the collapse of oil prices, which depressed the value of assets it had acquired. Yet Quasha managed to attract a steady flow of investment capital from the likes of Harvard's endowment fund, Hungarian-born superinvestor George Soros and the South African liquor and tobacco barons, the Rupert family. Despite the company's sloppy bookkeeping and long-shot prospects, all except Soros continue to hold large blocks of stock. "Alan Quasha will charm your pants off," explains a former Harken executive. "You will take your wallet out and empty it into anything that he suggests...
According to the Daily Princetonian, the measure hasn't been effective, as local liquor stores report more cases purchased this year than last year without a dramatic drop in keg purchases...
...backdrop of "hot swing music and liquor...and movies," the Working Title Repertory Company has presented a remarkable production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Innovative direction and unusually intense acting combine to create a successful experimental staging of this classic...